Armazic language

Armazic
	Armazian
	The Stele of Serapeitis, written in both Greek and the Armazic script.
Native to	Armenia and Georgia
Region	South Caucasus
Era	0–100 CE
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramoid? Aramaic (unclassified) Armazic; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Aramaic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xrm
Linguist List	xrm
Glottolog	None

Short description: Extinct written Aramaic language

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Armazic (also called Armazian) is an extinct written Aramaic language used as a language of administration in the South Caucasus in the first centuries AD.^[2] Both the Armazic language and script were related to the Aramaic of northern Mesopotamia. The name "Armazic" was introduced by the Georgian scholar Giorgi Tsereteli in reference to Armazi, an ancient site near Mtskheta, Georgia, where several specimens of a local idiom of written Aramaic have been found, most famous among them the Stele of Serapeitis, bilingual in Greek. Beyond several sites in eastern Georgia, an Armazic-type inscription is also present on the temple of Garni in Armenia. The latest specimen of Armazic is an inscription of a 3rd-century plate from Bori, Georgia.^[3]

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↑ "Armazic - MultiTree". LINGUIST List. http://multitree.org/codes/xrm. "1st-2nd centuries AD."
↑ Mgaloblishvili, Tamila; Rapp, Stephen H. (2011). "Chapter Seventeen: Manichaeism in late antique Georgia?". in van den Berg, Jacob Albert; Kotzé, Annemaré; Nicklas, Tobias et al.. In Search of Truth: Augustine, Manichaeism and other Gnosticism: Studies for Johannes van Oort at Sixty. Leiden: Brill. p. 287f. ISBN 978-90-04-18997-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=qeYE234vlgwC&q=%22armazic%22&pg=PA287. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
↑ Rapp, Stephen H. (2014). The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature. Ashgate Publishing. p. 215. ISBN 978-1472425522.

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[1] "Armazic - MultiTree". LINGUIST List. http://multitree.org/codes/xrm. "1st-2nd centuries AD."

[2] Mgaloblishvili, Tamila; Rapp, Stephen H. (2011). "Chapter Seventeen: Manichaeism in late antique Georgia?". in van den Berg, Jacob Albert; Kotzé, Annemaré; Nicklas, Tobias et al.. In Search of Truth: Augustine, Manichaeism and other Gnosticism: Studies for Johannes van Oort at Sixty. Leiden: Brill. p. 287f. ISBN 978-90-04-18997-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=qeYE234vlgwC&q=%22armazic%22&pg=PA287. Retrieved 1 September 2014.

[3] Rapp, Stephen H. (2014). The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature. Ashgate Publishing. p. 215. ISBN 978-1472425522.

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Armazic language

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