Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Imperial and Middle Aramaic

700 BCE – 700 CE Classical

Imperial and Middle Aramaic (700 BCE – 700 CE) is a classical Afro-Asiatic language. It has 4 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → … → Proto-Northwest Semitic → Old Aramaic → Imperial and Middle Aramaic.

See Imperial and Middle Aramaic on the interactive map

Covers Imperial Aramaic (lingua franca of the Neo-Assyrian and Achaemenid empires) and Middle/Late Aramaic (Biblical, Jewish Palestinian, Jewish Babylonian, Nabataean, Palmyrene). Old Aramaic, Classical Syriac and the Neo-Aramaic languages are tracked as separate nodes.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Semiticc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  3. Proto-West Semiticc. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  4. Proto-Central Semiticc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  5. Proto-Northwest Semiticc. 2,000 BCE – 1,200 BCE
  6. Old Aramaicc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE
  7. Imperial and Middle Aramaic700 BCE – 700 CE

Descendants 4

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