Christ's endangered language gets new lease of life in Oxford (fwd link)

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Christ's endangered language gets new lease of life in Oxford
An Aramaic course offered by Oxford University is drawing scores of
scholars from as far afield as Liverpool and London

Maev Kennedy
guardian.co.uk,	 Tuesday 21 December 2010 16.34 GMT

It is the language that Christ spoke, but is regarded as "endangered"
with ever fewer scattered groups of native speakers.

But in Oxford, Aramaic has been flourishing again, with a course in
the ancient language drawing people from as far afield as Liverpool
and London. There are now 56 people learning Aramaic at the
university, including three classics professors, solemnly completing
their weekly homework tasks and regularly attending the free lunchtime
lessons, more than the numbers studying Greek.

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