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Re: Yiddish language decline

At 03:47 AM 3/20/02, I. Oppenheim wrote:

>In fact there are still some isolated tribes in Iraq
>and Syria that do speak Aramaic...
>...but does that make Aramaic a living language?

Yes it does, in those communites.
And it is those communities (analogous in some statistical or demographic 
ways to surviving Yiddish-speaking communities of the future) which I have 
in mind when comparing the future state of Yiddish to that of Aramaic.

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Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ

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