Syria: Saving the Language of Christ
14 minutes, 2001
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For 2,000 years, Aramaic - the language of Jesus Christ - has survived in the Syrian village of Maloula. Caves and crevices have spared the people of Maloula from death and conquest by the Greeks, the Romans and the Arabs. This fortified position has also locked them away from any outside influence. But now it faces its biggest threat, the forces of modernisation, and within a few generations, the language of Christ could die out in Maloula.