The ancient Assyrian language is classified as Akkadian; it was the language of the Assyrians and Babylonians, written in Cuneiform. To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic ...

Thirty years ago there were 50,000 Christians in south-eastern Turkey speaking a dialect of Aramaic - the language of Christ. Now there are 2,500. Talking to one of them, the BBC's Jeremy Bristow ...

Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic. While Christ preached sermons and made his cry from the cross in a dialect spoken in Roman Palestine, another dialect of Aramaic developed further east in Edessa ...

Today, Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church estimates that number has fallen to around 400,000 ... Inside Aphrem’s church, parishioners sang Christmas songs in Aramaic — the ...

George's Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post ... Inside Aphrem's church, parishioners sang Christmas songs in Aramaic -- the language that Jesus is believed to have ...