Very interesting, thanks for posting this. I met a Turkish girl once, of Circassian and Laz ancestry, and her family still spoke Aramaic, so glad to see it’s even healthier than I thought.
Aramaic is spoken by Iraqi Caldians as well.
Aramaic is spoken by Iraqi Caldians as well.
Time to say the kaddish!
Aramaic is a group of related languages like the Romance languages of Europe. One branch is still spoken as an everyday language. Another branch is the language of the Talmud and studied in thousands of Jewish religious schools around the world. The famous Jewish ‘Kaddish’ prayer is in Aramaic.
Sure, Aramaic is getting a big boost lately. So is Catalan. A few years ago Serbo-Croatian was hot.
Let’s get real. Twenty years from now, Russian will be almost as dead as Latin and Gaelic and Greek — and Catalan and Serbo-Croatian.
Aramaic hasn’t a snowball’s chance.
I predict that in 50 years, you’d better know English, Chinese, Arabic, or Spanish (and how to shut up in your assigned language!) The rest will be in the ash bin.
bfl
Any yeshiva trained Jew can speak aramaic
bump.
All I have to say is mene mene tekel upharsin. So there.