A newly launched news channel in Iraq tries to preserve the ancient Syriac language

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A newly launched news channel in Iraq tries to preserve the ancient Syriac language
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Thats awesome! It's sad to see so few people preserving smaller dialects, much less entire dying languages. Even in non English-speaking places, language tends to drift towards whatever the officially sanctioned ones (read "whatever is taught in school") are.