The Indigenous Aramean people of Aram-Nahrin .
The Aramean people of Mesopotamia are the indigenous people of Aram-Nahrin. The Aramean people, not to be confused with 'Armenians', speak Aramaic, the language spoken by Abraham, Moses and Jesus Christ. Today's Arameans are divided into various denominations and called by different names.
Aramaeans never had a unified empire; they were divided into independent kingdoms all across the Near East. Yet to these Aramaeans befell the privilege of imposing their language and culture upon the entire Near East and beyond, fostered in part by the mass relocations enacted by successive empires.
Aramaeans are mostly defined by their use of the West Semitic Old Aramaic language (1100 BCAD 200), first written using the Phoenician alphabet, over time modified to a specifically Aramaic alphabet.