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Sheep graze at Serjilla, one of Syria's Dead Cities. Photograph: Kevin Rushby

[SunkenCiv]

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[Little Bill]

I think that if you read the history of the area, in the era that he is talking about, the mystery he is talking about is mooselimbs.

[mamelukesabre]

Looks like detroit.

[ApplegateRanch]

I found it odd that the one village is "the last place on earth" where Aramaic is spoken. The author sluffed off on his homework.

George Lamsa came from Assyria, raised in the Assyrian Church, and claimed, in his book on Bible idioms, that Aramaic was his people's language, as well as the church's language. That it was widespread in that region.

Also: Over 400,000 people of various communities from across the Middle East, and recent emigrants who have moved out of these communities, speak one of several varieties of Modern Aramaic (also called Neo-Aramaic) natively, including by religious adherence; Christians, Jews, Mandaeans and Muslims. Having lived in remote areas as insulated communities, the remaining modern speakers of Aramaic dialects escaped the linguistic pressures experienced by others during the large scale language shifts that saw the proliferation of other tongues among those who previously did not speak them, most recently the Arabization of the Middle East and North Africa by Muslim Arabians, during their spread of Islam. Most of the people of that region who converted to Islam, and many from the remaining unconverted population, also adopted Arabic as their first language. The Aramaic speakers have preserved their traditions with printing presses and now with electronic media.

Aramaic language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; scroll to: Modern Aramaic