Armazic language explained

Armazic
States:Caucasus
Era:0–100 CE[1]
Familycolor:Afro-Asiatic
Fam2:Semitic
Fam3:West Semitic
Fam4:Central Semitic
Fam5:Northwest Semitic
Fam6:Aramoid?
Fam7:Aramaic
Fam8:(unclassified)
Iso3:xrm
Linglist:xrm
Glotto:none

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. 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Armazic - MultiTree. https://web.archive.org/web/20191212015126/http://multitree.org/codes/xrm . dead . 12 December 2019 . . 2024-04-19. 1st-2nd centuries AD. .
  2. Book: Mgaloblishvili. Tamila. Rapp. Stephen H.. van den Berg. Jacob Albert. Kotzé. Annemaré. Nicklas. Tobias. Scopello. Madeleine. In Search of Truth: Augustine, Manichaeism and other Gnosticism: Studies for Johannes van Oort at Sixty. 2011. Brill. Leiden. 978-90-04-18997-3. 287f. https://books.google.com/books?id=qeYE234vlgwC&q=%22armazic%22&pg=PA287. 1 September 2014. Chapter Seventeen: Manichaeism in late antique Georgia?.
  3. Book: Rapp. Stephen H.. The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature. 2014. Ashgate Publishing. 978-1472425522. 215.