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May 28, 2012

AP: Pair of villages in Holy Land teaching Aramaic in effort to revive language that Jesus spoke

by Diaa Hadid
The Associated Press

JISH, Israel - Two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East.

The new focus on the region's dominant language 2,000 years ago comes with a little help from modern technology: an Aramaic-speaking television channel from Sweden, of all places, where a vibrant immigrant community has kept the ancient tongue alive.

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