Endangered Aramaic Language Taught in Two Villages, Two Sides of War (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

June 14, 2012

Endangered Aramaic Language Taught in Two Villages, Two Sides of War

The issue of education in Israel and the Palestinian territories is usually
fraught with settlement building, government oppression, and conflict
stricken schoolchildren. Ancient languages seem all but irrelevant in this
political hot zone, where Arabic and Hebrew are pitted against each other
in a media war of their representative religions. Nevertheless, Aramaic has
come to attention because the endangered language is receiving an
educational rebirth in two of the region’s villages.

Access full blog article below:
http://www.openequalfree.org/endangered-aramaic-language-taught-in-two-villages-two-sides-of-a-war/12582
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