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aramaic

Ar.a.ma.ic \.ar-*-'ma--ik\ n : a Semitic language known since the 9th 
   century B.C. as the speech  of the Aramaeans and later used extensively in 
   southwest Asia as a commercial and governmental language and adopted as 
   their customary speech by various Non-aramaean peoples including the Jews 
   after the Babylonian exile