WHAT LANGUAGE HAS BEEN IN CONTINUOUS USE FOR 3000 YEARS? - is witnessed already in Antiquity by inscriptions and documents from an area stretching from western Turkey to Afghanistan, from the Caucasus to southern Egypt?, - became a major literary language for tree faiths? - had reached southern India and western China by the time of the Arab conquests?, - is still spoken today in certain parts of the Middle East by members of four different faiths?, - and which has in the course of the twentieth century been taken by emigrés to all five continents? Although a few other languages can lay claim to three millennia of known history, none but Aramaic, in its various dialects, can meet all these conditions. This is an astonishing record! (Prof Sebastian Brock)
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 23:07:24 +0000
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