[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Also Aramaean.a northwest Semitic language that from around 300 b.c. to a.d. 650 was a lingua franca for nearly all of southwestern Asia and was the everyday speech of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Palestine.:Aram, Aram.Compare Biblical Aramaic Biblical Aramaic."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["pertaining to Aram, or to the languages spoken there.", "noting or pertaining to the alphabetic, or perhaps syllabic, script used for the writing of Aramaic from about the ninth century b.c. and from which were derived the Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian, Pahlavi, Uighor, and many other scripts, probably including Brahmi."]}]