Only about 900 people in the world speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic KORMAKITIS, Cyprus -- Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis' cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language ...

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (AP) — Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis' cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of extinction, one that partly traces its roots ...

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (AP) — Only about 900 people in the world speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic. The offshoot of Syrian Arabic has been passed on orally over the centuries. Now it is at risk of ...

(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) A priest swings a senser at an icon of St. George during a traditional procession on the saint’s Feast Day outside St. George Church in the Maronite village of Kormakitis ...

A painting of St. George hangs on the wall of St. George Church as the faithful attend a service, in the Maronite village of Kormakitis in the breakaway north of the ethnically divided Cyprus on ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A painting of St. George hangs on the wall of St ...

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (AP) — Only about 900 people in the world speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic. The offshoot of Syrian Arabic has been passed on orally over the centuries. Now it is at risk of extinction.

Maronite Catholic nuns recite hymns during a service in outside St. George Church in the Maronite village of Kormakitis in the breakaway north of the ethnically divided Cyprus on Wednesday, April ...