KORMAKITIS, Cyprus — Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis' cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of extinction, one that partly traces its roots to the ...

Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke to his disciples, is chanted during daily Mass at St. Jude Catholic Church, which uses the Maronite Rite. The 200 parishioners of the Orlando church are mostly ...

A documentary on Sanna, a language considered ‘severely endangered’ by Unesco since 2002, will have its first screening on Monday. The event aims to support the revival of the Cypriot Maronite Arabic ...

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (AP) — Only about 900 people in the world speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic. The offshoot of Syrian Arabic has been passed on orally over the centuries. Now it is at risk of extinction.

It's Good Friday, and for Maronites — members of the Lebanese branch of the Catholic church — it's one of the holiest, and most sorrowful, days of the year. Maronite Catholicism comes from the ...