23 March 2004

Aramaic for the Passion

I guess because I'm a linguistic scientist by BA and the fascination with matters linguistic that I still have, this caught my eye. It looks genuine [I don't think someones passing off Klingon as Aramaic] in that it matches the bits I know of Aramaic and there is a family resemblance to Hebrew and Arabic. I think it's wonderful that some of those very modern words have been translated!

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