Aramaic is easily recognizable in the lowest line, below the Greek inscription. It is dated to 129 AD. In the following article I will address three issues: How have Assyrians retained Aramaic into ...

ANKAWA, Iraq -- It is commonly known as the language of Jesus and is the root of both Arabic and Hebrew. But what's less widely known is that Aramaic is still spoken, and is in fact thriving in some ...

Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighbouring Syria for centuries — Waleed AL-KHALID Iraq's shrunken and conflict-scarred Christian ...

What do these three locales have in common: a remote village in Syria; Sydney, Australia; and the Old City of Jerusalem? The answer is: Aramaic, a dominant language in the ancient world. Now, Jews, ...

It was a sunny morning in May, and I was in a car with a linguist and a tax preparer trolling the suburbs of Chicago for native speakers of Aramaic, the 3,000-year-old language of Jesus. The linguist, ...

Representatives from Assyrian communities around the world gathered in Jerusalem on Sunday evening to attend a conference hosted by the Committee for the Resurrection of the Aramaic Language and the ...

Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighboring Syria for centuries In this picture taken May 10, artist and museum curator Saliwa Shamoun ...