How to Use Aramaic in a Sentence
Aramaic
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Still, relatively few Hollywood workers feel at home in Chabad’s traditional services, where prayers are sung exclusively in Hebrew and Aramaic, and must be said out of sight by women, who worship hidden behind a screen.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 2023-09-15
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Conflicting reports claim that al-Nusra fighters have desecrated churches and statues in what may be one of the oldest Christian cities in the world, a place where residents still speak Aramaic, the language presumably spoken by Jesus.
—Reza Aslan, Foreign Affairs, 2013-09-11
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There’s the Afro-Asiatic family of languages spoken in northern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of Western Asia, including Egyptian and Somali, plus Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic.
—Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
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