imperial aramaic
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
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The chronolect of the Aramaic language (mid-8th century–late 4th century BCE), intermediate between Old Aramaic and Middle Aramaic, that was used as a language of public life and administration in the late Neo-Assyrian Empire (from the reign of King Tiglath-Pileser III [r. 745–727 BCE] onward), the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and the Achaemenid Empire, until the latter’s conquest by Alexander the Great in 330 BCE.
name
The Imperial Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BCE) only.