LONDON — Geoffrey Khan had almost given up. A linguist at the University of Cambridge, he was in Tbilisi, Georgia, to find the last speakers of a rare dialect of Aramaic. The first of his three leads, ...

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The Aramaic language, one of the oldest continuously spoken languages in the world, holds a special place in the hearts of those who cherish linguistic heritage and cultural identity. As a native of ...

It is the language that Christ spoke, but is regarded as "endangered" with ever fewer scattered groups of native speakers. But in Oxford, Aramaic has been flourishing again, with a course in the ...

Laura Jahanara Mangus doesn’t feel like a musician. No, really. Never mind that her piece “ABWOON, Call to Prayer” — a haunting rendition of “The Lord’s Prayer” in the ancient Aramaic tongue spoken by ...