Language has always been more than communication, it’s how civilizations preserved their culture, beliefs, and history.

Greek, the oldest written language still in use, has shaped culture, philosophy, and science for over 3,700 years.

Where Syriac is a variety of Aramaic, the language of the "Old Syriac" manuscripts is too young and physically removed to be Christ’s language, and actually has features that we know that Christ ...

The 97-year-old Skordis is one of only 900 people in the world who speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic, or Sanna. Today, his ...

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.

But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world’s few places where residents still use a dialect of Aramaic — the language Jesus is believed to have used and in which much of Jewish ...

But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used. The town is also home to Syria's two ...

For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and cultural language. Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of ...

Rather, Jesus the historical figure likely conversed in Aramaic, the native language of Judeah, the region in the Roman Empire where scholars believe the messiah and his disciples lived (now part ...