07-17-2009, 08:10 PM
ham Wrote:Quote:there a still some small linguistic islands in Israel and probably also in Syria - in some villages, they still speak a kind of Aramaic as it used was used by the time of Jesus. Interesting....
Old English is also a "dead" language....
I do not believe there is ANYWHERE a place where a language is spoken exactly as it was 2000 years ago.
That`s correct. The Aramaic spoken today must of course be linguistically different from that variety spoken at the time of Jesus.