Chaldean

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Chaldean (also Chaldaean or Chaldee) may refer to:

Language

• an old name for the Aramaic language
• Biblical Aramaic, which accounts for a small portion of the Bible
  • Chaldean misnomer, a historical incorrect term for Biblical Aramaic
• Suret, a modern Aramaic language spoken by Chaldean Catholics

People

• Ancient Chaldeans, ancient Semitic people in southern Mesopotamia
• Modern Chaldeans, Assyrian people who are adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church

Places

• Chaldea, an ancient region whose inhabitants were known as Chaldeans
• Neo-Babylonian Empire, also called the Chaldean Empire
• Chaldean Town, a neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

Religion

• Chaldean Catholic Church, Eastern Rite Catholic Church in full communion with the Catholic Church
• Chaldean Rite, the East Syriac Rite of the Chaldean Catholics
• Chaldean Oracles, texts widely used by Neoplatonist philosophers from 3rd to 6th centuries AD; referred to by some Christian church fathers
• Chaldean Syrian Church, title used for the Assyrian Church of the East in India

Other

• Chaldean (horse) (foaled 2020), Thoroughbred racehorse

See also

• Khaldi (disambiguation)

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