[jwalburg]

Don't know if it will take off any more than Gaelic or masses in Latin, but you never know.

[Graewoulf]

Thanks for this article.

[ChicagoHebrew]

Every Rabbinical student learns at least some of it-- the Talmud is written in Aramaic, after all. Through studying Talmud, I probably learned a couple words-- though I've forgotten it by now.

[quantim]

Semper Fidelis

[July 4th]

In the last 5-10 years or so, Latin has been in scholastic revival. I've heard of some school districts where German or French has been dropped in favor of it.

[ancient_geezer]

"If Mel Gibson can succeed at that," he says with a laugh, "I'll be his best friend."

Let's see Treckies have their Klingon,

Lord of The Rings has it Elvish,

Aramaic from the Passion,? now-a-days I wouldn't be surprised at all.

[Alouette]

How many FReepers know some Aramaic? (see tagline for details)

[djf]

I just posted a bit of it online on this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1087664/posts

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[usmom]

In the movie, I found it absolutely haunting. I don't know how else to describe it.

[Burkeman1]

Interesting article. Good post.

[proust]

From my Latin class days:

Latin is a language as dead as dead can be. First it killed the Romans, and know it's killing me!

[Barnacle]

I heard that 70% of English is Latin based. That number strikes me as a little high, because English descends to a a great extent from German.

But, it was interesting that as I watched the movie last night, there were parts in Latin that I knew basically what they were saying without the subtitles.

[nutmeg]

ping

[Inyo-Mono]

American English found it hard to stand up to Mexican Spanish, Arabic, and Farsi as it spread through the regions where American speakers lived. Today, massive immigration to the West is further depleting the number of speakers.

[SkyPilot]

Why is it disappearing? Aramaic found it hard to stand up to Arabic,

When Islam was spread by the sword, Muhammad and his orcs forced his dialect of Arabic and outlawed Aramaic.

[witnesstothefall]

Great article bump.

[katana]

Just saw the movie last night with my wife (still overwhelmed, by the way). I took a couple years of Latin in high school and minored in Arabic in college. I wasn't surprised at how much of the Latin I could understand (it sounded a lot like modern Italian) but the Aramaic was very similar to Arabic and therefore probably quite understandable to anybody familiar with that or Hebrew. The "K" sounds at the end of verbs indicating second person (you), "NA" indicating third person plural, "ABBA" meaning "father" (Abu in Arabic), etc. The time it became interesting was when the Chief Priest allowed (as scripture states) that Jesus' blood would be on his and his descendent's hands. That line sealed the deal with Pilate. It was spoken but didn't appear in the subtitles, for what I think are obvious reasons.

[StriperSniper]

Ping

[SunkenCiv]

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