Babylonian Aramaic | |
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ארמית Ārāmît | |
![]() Incantation bowl in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic | |
Region | Babylonia, modern day southern and some of central Iraq |
Era | ca. 200–1200 CE |
Afro-Asiatic
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Early form | |
Babylonian Alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tmr |
Glottolog | jewi1240 |
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (Aramaic: ארמית Ārāmît) was the form of Middle Aramaic employed by writers in Lower Mesopotamia between the fourth and eleventh centuries. It is most commonly identified with the language of the Babylonian Talmud (which was completed in the seventh century), the Targum Onqelos, and of post-Talmudic (Gaonic) literature, which are the most important cultural products of Babylonian Jews. The most important epigraphic sources for the dialect are the hundreds of inscriptions on incantation bowls.[1]