During its approximately 3,100 years of written history, Aramaic has served variously as a language of administration of empires, as a language of divine worship and religious study, and as the spoken tongue of a number of Semitic peoples from the Near East.
Tijekom svojih približno 3.100 godina pisane povijesti, aramejski je služio kao jezik administracije mnogih carstava i kao jezik bogoslužja, vjerskog učenja te govorni jezik nekolicine semitskih naroda s Bliskog istoka.