24.745, Media: Smithsonian Magazine Article on Documenting Aramaic

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Subject: 24.745, Media: Smithsonian Magazine Article on Documenting Aramaic

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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:32:08
From: Anna Belew [anna at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Smithsonian Magazine Article on Documenting Aramaic

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'It was a sunny morning in May, and I was in a car with a linguist and a tax
preparer trolling the suburbs of Chicago for native speakers of Aramaic, the
3,000-year-old language of Jesus.

The linguist, Geoffrey Khan of the University of Cambridge, was nominally in
town to give a speech at Northwestern University, in Evanston. But he had
another agenda: Chicago’s northern suburbs are home to tens of thousands of
Assyrians, Aramaic-speaking Christians driven from their Middle Eastern
homelands by persecution and war. The Windy City is a heady place for one of
the world’s foremost scholars of modern Aramaic, a man bent on documenting all
of its dialects before the language—once the tongue of empires—follows its
last speakers to the grave.'

Full article:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovations/How-to-Save-a-Dying-Language-1
87947061.html
 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Language Family(ies): Aramaic






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