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are aramaic and greek only ancient languages or are they both modern and ancient?

are aramaic and greek only ancient languages or are they both modern and ancient?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Classical Greek evolved over the years so that Modern Greek is now very different.

    Aramaic is basically an ancient language - from around the area of Syria - although there are still some speakers scattered around the region today.

  • 1 decade ago

    Greek obviously is a modern language, but so is Aramaic. There are still a few speakers left in the middle east, although obviously it's not exactly the same language that was spoken at the time of the New Testament.

  • 1 decade ago

    I cannot speak for Aramaic, but Greek is both modern and ancient.

    As an example of how words have changed:

    [tim-eh] τιμαι = honour (ancient)

    [tim-ee] τιμή = honour (modern).

    Furthermore, modern Greek has introduced lower-case letters and spaces between words and has been influence by French and Turkish, mostly. With small influences from other languages, including English.

  • 1 decade ago

    As far as I know,Greek has 2 variants -- modern & ancient.

    Aramaic is a dead language.Nobody speaks it now.

    But I'm not sure about the second one,maybe I'm wrong.

    Hope it helps you a bit.

    Source(s): I'm a linguist,specializing in Russian & English.My university studies were closely connected with the general liguistics as well.
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