Comments on: Jesus’ language still spoken in Syria http://talkislam.info/2008/04/22/jesus-language-still-spoken-in-syria/ a crescent waxing eloquent Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:45:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: musafir http://talkislam.info/2008/04/22/jesus-language-still-spoken-in-syria/#comment-161 musafir Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:38:32 +0000 http://talkislam.info/2008/04/22/jesus-language-still-spoken-in-syria/#comment-161 Wow, I had no idea that Aramaic is still in existence (albeit dying out). I thought it was already completely lost. Wow, I had no idea that Aramaic is still in existence (albeit dying out). I thought it was already completely lost.

]]> By: baraka http://talkislam.info/2008/04/22/jesus-language-still-spoken-in-syria/#comment-152 baraka Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:28:30 +0000 http://talkislam.info/2008/04/22/jesus-language-still-spoken-in-syria/#comment-152 "Back then the village...was almost entirely Christian, a vestige of an older and more diverse Middle East that existed before the arrival of Islam." I deeply feel the death of languages, experiencing it on a personal front in a relationship where my spouse doesn't speak my mother tongue, and witnessing it in places like this where their language fading away. BUT - what the heck does that quoted sentence mean? Islam came to Syria around 1238 AD. Why does that sort of irritating Orientalist dribble still pass for journalism? “Back then the village…was almost entirely Christian, a vestige of an older and more diverse Middle East that existed before the arrival of Islam.”

I deeply feel the death of languages, experiencing it on a personal front in a relationship where my spouse doesn’t speak my mother tongue, and witnessing it in places like this where their language fading away.

BUT - what the heck does that quoted sentence mean? Islam came to Syria around 1238 AD. Why does that sort of irritating Orientalist dribble still pass for journalism?

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