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This article reads very strangely. Aramaic at least the Jewish Babylonian dialect is extremely alive. Children learn it in school, and thousands and thousands o
by SnowHill9902 4y ago
This article reads very strangely. Aramaic at least the Jewish Babylonian dialect is extremely alive. Children learn it in school, and thousands and thousands of adults study texts every day written in Aramaic.
- margalabargala 4y agoThe same is true of Latin, but that's still considered a "dead" language. It's not the same to learn to read something for scholarly reasons, vs using it as one's native tongue.
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- mike10921 4y agoIt's being studied but none of these kids/adults use it as a day-to-day language.
- HideousKojima 4y agoAnd the Syriac Orthodox Church still uses Syriac, which is a dialect of Aramaic.
- compsciphd 4y agosort of. People learn to read it, but they don't really speak or write it. the ability to read a language doesn't make it an alive language. This contrasts to Hebrew, which some say was a dead language, but was the living language of jewish law correspondence and jewish law / biblical exegesis, even when other languages were the day to day vernacular (ladino, yiddish or the like). People like to say that hebrew was a dead language before the modern hebrew movement, but that's not quite fair. It wasn't a day to day language of the streets, but new things in it were being written every day all over the diaspora. Basically, those who say it was a dead language are demonstrating their bias against religiously oriented texts and communications.