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 | | They come from two main groups: the Siro-Aramaic tribes (Aram that becomes Syria), their language was Aramaic, and from the Arab tribes, their language was Arabic. |
 | | a) Arameans were the inhabitants of the Fertile Crescent region since the 14 century BC (today, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq and Southern Turkey) who are today the Assyrians, the Chaldeans, the Syrians and the Cananite-Phoenicians who became Christians in the first century and used the Siro-Aramaic as local tongue used by Jesus our Lord. |
 | | Jews used the Aramaic language as their today language when Hebrew was for them the language of the Torah (Bible) (the written language that they used for their liturgy). |
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