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• Dan. 2:1   And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. 2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. 3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. 4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
• We note here that the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Syriac, or Aramaic. This demonstrates clearly that Aramaic was the normal, spoken language in the Babylonian Empire. This whole section of Daniel, in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament, is written in Aramaic.