Aramaic

[Sarah]

Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language,or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramæan; -- specificallyapplied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages,including Syriac and Chaldee.-- n.

[Sarah]

Ancient semitic language. A language spoken by [Jesus]. Today, a dialect known as Syriac is used by the Syriac-Orthodox Church and many christian inhabitants of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Israel.

[Kit]

a language used in Western Asia:

[Sommer]

A Semitic language, a Syrian dialect of which was used as a lingua franca in the Near East from the 6th century BC. It gradually replaced Hebrew as the language of the Jewish people in those areas and was itself supplanted by Arabic in the 7th century AD.