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Aramaic in Maaloula
As we continue to pray for Syria and in a particular way for the Christians there, a friend sent us a fascinating video clip on the living Aramaic language still spoken in a little town in Syria, Maaloula.
Syrian Christians and Muslims in Maaloula continue to speak a dialect of the Aramaic language that was the dominant language for hundreds of years in the Middle East. Parts of the Holy Scriptures are written in Aramaic and it was the mother tongue of Jesus. A Christian form of Aramaic, Syriac, was an important language in the first centuries among the Christians of the Middle East and continues to be used in liturgies of some of the Eastern Churches.
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