Question: Did the Babylonians speak Aramaic?
Google; During the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires, Arameans, the native speakers of Aramaic, began to settle in greater numbers, at first in Babylonia, and later in Assyria (Upper Mesopotamia, modern-day northern Iraq, northeast Syria, southwest Iran, and south-eastern Turkey (what was Armenia at the time).
Was Aramaic a Babylonian language?
During the 2nd millennium BC, Babylonian was adopted all over the Near East as the language of scholarship, administration, commerce and diplomacy. Later in the 1st millennium BC it was gradually replaced by Aramaic, which is still spoken in some parts of the Middle East today.
Comment: in the book of Daniel during the Captivity of Israel in Babylon, the first part is in Aramaic, and the second part is in Hebrew. That is to differentiate between the historic portion and the prophetic portion, which runs to the end of the book.
See: The 490 years Prophecy given to Daniel by Gabriel (Study)
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