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Syriac, the modern Syrian dialect of Aramaic, is the liturgical language of the Syriac Christian community. Most members of that community today speak Arabic as their native language, but the clergy is generally literate in Syriac. Jewish Aramaic is the language of much of the Talmud and small portions of the Jewish liturgy. Many Jews today learn Hebrew, but Jews who study Talmud (many Rabbis and a surprising number of laymen) are somewhat literate in Aramaic as it is used in the Talmud. A Rabbi I knew visited Syria back in the 1980s and was pleased to discover that he could communicate in Aramaic with Syriac priests. Each thought the other had a strange accent and they did have to speak slowly and carefully, but they could communicate.

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There are currently estimated to be around 200,000 people who speak various dialects of Aramaic worldwide. Most speakers are found in communities in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran.

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