Chaldean

Chaldean (also Chaldaean or Chaldee) may refer to:

Language

 * an old name for the Aramaic language, particularly Biblical Aramaic
 * Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, a modern Aramaic language
 * Chaldean script, a variant of the Syriac alphabet

People

 * Ancient Chaldeans, ancient Semitic people in southern Mesopotamia
 * Modern Chaldeans, modern self-identification of Chaldean Catholics

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 Catholics, adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church
 * 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 of the Christian Church Fathers
 * Chaldean Syrian Church, title used for the Assyrian Church of the East in India

Other

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