[a] It was primarily documented in Palmyra itself, but also found in the western parts of the Roman Empire, extending as far as Britannia.

Dated inscriptions range from 44 BCE to 274 CE, with over 4,000 known inscriptions, mostly comprising honorific, dedicatory, and funerary texts.

The dialect still retains echoes of earlier Imperial Aramaic.

The lexicon bears influences from both Koine Greek and, to some extent, Arabic.

[7] The written Palmyrene language was composed in a rounded script that later exhibited resemblances to the Syriac Estrangela script.