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RE: Travel with me to Lebanon: Hear an ancient language spoken Aramaic
Sounds like a trip of a lifetime. I love visiting the Middle East, one of the richest locations in the world for humanity's history.
I'd also love to visit a place where Aramaic is spoken natively, although I think there's only a very few places in Syria and Iraq where this is the case. It won't be long before this language is extinct, and will only be known to us through books and liturgical usage in churches.
Lovely post!
The middle east does indeed have many marvelous and beautiful cultures that we can and should learn from.
According to my research Aramaic is spoken by approximately 200,000 people in the regions that you mentioned so you may be right as to it going extinct but these things are never set in stone.
Latin was once considered a long dead language but it is having a bit of a revival at least in the UK. Where it is being taught once again in some schools?
Gaelic (Irish) was almost obliterated by the colonial rule of the British but held on in some remote and rural locations. It too is being revived and taught in Irish schools again.
The culture of a people is conveyed through language as well as food, art and music etc. Suppress the language and you suppress the culture.