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It's an ancient language, Jesus used the Aramaic as language. AndSalX-WWECR 23:23, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Arguments in favour
- &YSupport - Euskaldun 15:49, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Arguments against
- Aramaic is actually the name of a language family, not just one language. Even in ancient times, there were a number of very different forms of Aramaic (Achaemenid "official" Aramaic, Syriac, etc.), and very little is actually known in detail about the particular form of Aramaic which Jesus spoke (Galilean/Judean Western Aramaic). Also, many of the considerations which I brought up with respect to Phoenician would also apply to ancient Aramaic (see Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Phoenician_2). In my opinion, ancient-language Wikipedias should only be approved where a lot of detailed specific information about the language is available, and the language has a continuous tradition of usage down to the present day (e.g. Latin, classical Chinese, classical Greek, Sanskrit etc.). Syriac might qualify according to this criterion (though there are significant variants of Syriac used by different denominations), but general undifferentiated "Aramaic" doesn't, nor does the Aramaic spoken by Jesus. AnonMoos 12:17, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
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