Old Western Aramaic
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Old Western Aramaic is an ancient Northwest Semitic language variety that represents an early stage of the Aramaic dialects once spoken in the western regions of the Near East.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Western Aramaic canonical | 2 |
| Western Aramaic | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19541635 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Old Western Aramaic Context triple: [Western Middle Aramaic, follows, Old Western Aramaic]
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A.
Eastern Aramaic
Eastern Aramaic is a branch of the Aramaic language group comprising several modern and classical dialects historically spoken across Mesopotamia and surrounding regions.
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B.
Old Aramaic
Old Aramaic is an early stage of the Aramaic language used in the first millennium BCE across parts of the ancient Near East, known from inscriptions and documents of various Aramaean kingdoms and empires.
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C.
Classical Aramaic
Classical Aramaic is the standardized literary and liturgical form of the Aramaic language used in antiquity, notably in religious texts and inscriptions across the Near East.
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D.
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is a modern Eastern Aramaic language spoken primarily by Assyrian communities in the Middle East and the global diaspora.
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E.
Western Middle Aramaic
Western Middle Aramaic is a historical stage of the Aramaic language spoken in the Levant that served as a transitional form between earlier Western Aramaic dialects and the modern Western Neo-Aramaic varieties.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Old Western Aramaic Target entity description: Old Western Aramaic is an ancient Northwest Semitic language variety that represents an early stage of the Aramaic dialects once spoken in the western regions of the Near East.
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A.
Eastern Aramaic
Eastern Aramaic is a branch of the Aramaic language group comprising several modern and classical dialects historically spoken across Mesopotamia and surrounding regions.
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B.
Old Aramaic
Old Aramaic is an early stage of the Aramaic language used in the first millennium BCE across parts of the ancient Near East, known from inscriptions and documents of various Aramaean kingdoms and empires.
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C.
Classical Aramaic
Classical Aramaic is the standardized literary and liturgical form of the Aramaic language used in antiquity, notably in religious texts and inscriptions across the Near East.
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D.
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is a modern Eastern Aramaic language spoken primarily by Assyrian communities in the Middle East and the global diaspora.
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E.
Western Middle Aramaic
Western Middle Aramaic is a historical stage of the Aramaic language spoken in the Levant that served as a transitional form between earlier Western Aramaic dialects and the modern Western Neo-Aramaic varieties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Old Western Aramaic