Mandaic
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language of the Mandaean religion and community
Key facts
- Native to
- Iraq and Iran
- Region
- Iraq: Baghdad , Basra ; Iran: Khuzistan
- Ethnicity
- Mandaeans
- Native speakers
- (5,500 cited 2001–2006)
- Language family
- Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramaic Eastern Southeastern Mandaic
- Early forms
- Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Old Aramaic Middle Aramaic Eastern Middle Aramaic
- Writing system
- Mandaic alphabet
- Iso 639 3
- Either:, mid – Mandaic, myz – Classical Mandaic
- Linguist list
- mid Neo-Mandaic
- Glottolog
- mand1468 , nucl1706 , clas1253
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Incantation bowl from Mesopotamia dated between the 5th and the 8th century, inscribed in Mandaic, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland
Mandaic, or more specifically Classical Mandaic, is the liturgical language of Mandaeism and a South Eastern Aramaic variety in use by the Mandaean community, traditionally based in southern parts of Iraq and southwest Iran, for their religious books. Mandaic, or Classical Mandaic, is still used by Mandaean priests in liturgical rites. The modern descendant of Mandaic or Classical Mandaic, known as Neo-Mandaic or Modern Mandaic, is spoken by a small group of Mandaeans around Ahvaz and Khorramshahr in the southern Iranian Khuzestan province.