The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL) is an online database containing a searchable dictionary and text corpora of

Aramaic Aramaic (; ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, Sinai, southeastern Anatolia, and Eastern Arabia, where it has been continually written a ...

dialects. CAL includes more than 3 million lexically parsed words. The project was started in the 1980s and is currently hosted by the Jewish Institute of Religion at the

Hebrew Union College Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language until ...

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Dialects

CAL includes the following Aramaic dialects and texts. * Old Aramaic *

Imperial Aramaic Imperial Aramaic is a linguistic term, coined by modern Aramaic studies, scholars in order to designate a specific historical Variety (linguistics), variety of Aramaic language. The term is polysemic, with two distinctive meanings, wider (socioli ...

* Biblical Aramaic *Qumran Aramaic: fragments of Daniel, a "targum" of verses in Leviticus, and Qumran Targum Job *Jewish Literary Aramaic: Targums Onqelos, Jonathan to the Prophets *Palestinian Targumic Aramaic: Targum Neofiti, Fragment Targums, Cairo Genizah fragments *

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Jewish Palestinian Aramaic also known as Jewish Western Aramaic was a Western Aramaic language spoken by the Jews during the Classic Era in Judea and the Levant, specifically in Hasmonean, Herodian and Roman Judaea and adjacent lands in the ...

* Syriac **Old Testament

Peshitta The Peshitta ( ''or'' ') is the standard Syriac edition of the Bible for Syriac Christian churches and traditions that follow the liturgies of the Syriac Rites. The Peshitta is originally and traditionally written in the Classical Syriac d ...

(including Old Testament Apocrypha) **New Testament

and Old Syriac Gospels * Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA) *

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (Aramaic: ) was the form of Middle Aramaic employed by writers in Lower Mesopotamia between the fourth and eleventh centuries. It is most commonly identified with the language of the Babylonian Talmud (which was comp ...

* Mandaic (curated by Matthew Morgenstern and Ohad Abudraham) *Late Jewish Literary Aramaic:

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (also known as the Jerusalem Targum, Targum Yerushalmi, or Targum Jonathan) is an Aramaic translation and interpretation (targum) of the Torah (Pentateuch) traditionally thought to have originated from the land of Israel, al ...

to the Pentateuch, all Targums to the Hagiographa * Samaritan Aramaic: Targum J

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Dialects and texts

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