To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic was made the second official language in 752 B.C. (see Akkadian Words in Modern Assyrian) for more information. Click on the title to ...

The introduction and spread of Aramaic in Central Asia was of central importance in the diffusion of literacy, being used as an administrative language at the court of the Achaemenid Empire (sixth to ...

This, despite Aramaic being the language that most historians ... Their disperal was sparked by persecution suffered within the Ottoman Empire from 1915 onwards; when waves of violence claimed ...