Judeo-Syrian Arabic is a linguistic relic of Syria’s Jewish past, blending the Levantine Arabic spoken by the majority population with Hebrew and Aramaic elements. For centuries, it was no one's ...

Imperial Aramaic). According to the Old Testament, in 701 B.C., when officials of Sennacherib appeared before the walls of Jerusalem, and the Rab-Shakeh spoke in Hebrew to the officers of King ...

Yiddish - a mixture of Hebrew and Middle German, spiced with Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Old French and Old Italian, was once spoken by more than ten million people - nearly two thirds of the world's ...