Abstract

The author carries out a presentation of the common and diverging elements of the Aramean language. First, he analyses the two ways in which this language has been transmitted: the Asirian-Babilonic sources, and the Aramean sources themselves; secondly, he establishes its situation within a linguistic classification which places it within the North-western Semitic branch, together with Ungaritian, Phoenician and Hebrew languages; the study follows with a chronological division of Aramean in different stages: ancient, classical, middle, late and modern, each of them subdivided in several dialects, depending on the speaking ethnic group. Finally, the author analyses, within this great dialectal range, the common elements that Aramean language has kept

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