http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/02/how-to-revive-a-lost-language/ Keeping You Current Wed, 22 May 2013 18:10:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/02/how-to-revive-a-lost-language/comment-page-1/#comment-4890 Lexington Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:04:35 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=10959#comment-4890 what's the point? All human languages are constructs and evolve via their use. I cam think of many more causes more valuable in the world. New languages will evolve, old ones die for a reason, the protagonists die. Let them. Languages are artificial and superfluous to the evolution on the planet. what’s the point? All human languages are constructs and evolve via their use. I cam think of many more causes more valuable in the world. New languages will evolve, old ones die for a reason, the protagonists die. Let them. Languages are artificial and superfluous to the evolution on the planet.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/02/how-to-revive-a-lost-language/comment-page-1/#comment-4400 virginia walters Sat, 09 Feb 2013 06:03:58 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=10959#comment-4400 Aramaic is still taught through the Syrian orthodox church. In the mountains on the border of Turkey and Syria there is a village called Midyat with a monastery called saint Gabriels, where Aramaic and old Syriac is taught. In Damascus and Lebanon the church also had monasteries where Aramaic was taught to students who went to board there. In western countries the priests at most churches if trained through the monasteries also know and can teach this language. Aramaic is still taught through the Syrian orthodox church. In the mountains on the border of Turkey and Syria there is a village called Midyat with a monastery called saint Gabriels, where Aramaic and old Syriac is taught. In Damascus and Lebanon the church also had monasteries where Aramaic was taught to students who went to board there. In western countries the priests at most churches if trained through the monasteries also know and can teach this language.

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