He is composing Aramaic songs in the hope that music will breathe life into the language. He has researched and revived the Aramaic alphabet and is working to translate the Bible. So far, he has ...

MAALULA, Syria -- In this quaint stone village perched high in the mountains above Damascus, the language of Jesus Christ has somehow, miraculously, endured through the millennia. Aramaic, which ...

Aramaic influenced both Arabic and Hebrew, sister Semitic languages, and even contributed to the writng of Mongolian and Uighur, in terms of alphabet development, lexical borrowing, and cultural ...

The transition was made possible because the two languages shared similarities. Also because the 22 letter Aramaic alphabet was much easier to master than the 600 or so signs of the cuneiform. The ...