Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

Babylonian Aramaic
ארמית Ārāmît
Incantation bowl in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Region	Babylonia, modern day southern and some of central Iraq
Era	ca. 200–1200 CE
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Northwest Semitic Aramaic Eastern Aramaic Southeastern Babylonian Aramaic
Early form	Old Aramaic
Writing system	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]