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. I once watched a documentary explaining how different Christian sects look at short, selected bible passages...hardly surprising, there were huge differences in both translation and interpretation...sadly enough, no 2000 years old scribe is there to set them straight. It is a bit like string theory...everyone has his own. An example? The word 'idiot' comes from ancient Greek to mean 'private citizen'...and one of the supposed origins of 'cretin' is 'christian'...
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Ph.D Millard Fillmore
B.A London Institute of Applied Research
B.Sc Millard Fillmore
M.A International Institute for Advanced Studies
Ph.D London Institute of Applied Research
Ph.D Millard Fillmore