In Search for the "Eastern" Scythians

[yaaqubyl]

You sound like a kid, alone in a candy store.

I missed my calling, I love archeology. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!-- s -->

You know those Jewish Aramaic recordings from Iraq? There's like 20 or so people, like all over the age of 80, in Israel who are left. After they're gone, that dialect is dead. All their kids and grandkids have taken up modern Hebrew out of necessity.

Another dialect gone.....

Shlama,

Yes, this is absolutely true. As some of the descendants have moved, not only into Israel, but throughout the Diaspora, some of us who are rediscovering our heritage so to speak, are trying piece this back together with what remains left to us. Most of those who spoke these various dialects have now, sadly, died.

It's a horrible thought to me, but often times, when a language dies, an entire culture goes with it. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!-- s -->

Shlama,
Ya'aqub Younan-Levine