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Name: Imperial Aramaic Alternate Names: Early Imperial Aramaic; Biblical Aramaic; Official Aramaic; Standard Literary Aramaic; Aramaic Code: arc Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: LINGUIST List Status: Extinct Families: Afro-Asiatic Parent Language: Imperial Aramaic; Early Imperial Aramaic; Biblical Aramaic; Official Aramaic; Standard Literary Aramaic; Aramaic (arc) Child Language: Middle Aramaic (qhy) Brief Description: The most widespread language during the period of the New Assyrian empire, and the chancellery language of the Persian Empire. This language appears in the Old Testament of the Bible in five places: Ezra 4:8-6:18, Ezra 7:12-26, Daniel 2:4-7:28, Jer. 10:11 and Gen. 31:47. 7-4th centuries BC.