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repulsewarrior

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PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 2:33 am    Post subject: Cyprus Maronites reviving Aramaic link to Jesus Reply with quote
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The Aramaic language of the earliest Christians lives on in the church services of a tiny village on the Turkish Cypriot side of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, where a hybrid dialect of Aramaic is commonly spoken by just 1,000 people who are striving to keep it alive.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/cyprus-maronites-reviving-aramaic-link-to-jesus-1.289732


...the ethnosphere under threat, such is this, an example.

in the last two hundred years half the world's languages were lost, and in fifty years, more than half of the remaining will be gone as well.
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