Re: Just a Little Taste of Judean (Part 2)

Padraic Brown wrote:
> All this
> assuming that, like the Alexandrian and other Jews, they were not using
> Hebrew.  Or is that all out of kilter?
Well, technically, they weren't speaking Hebrew, but rather Aramaic.

> As for my comparison with American (or any modern) users of Latin:  There
> are very few people anymore who have been exposed to spoken Latin (those
> that have are, generally, Roman Catholics over the age of 55 or so)
And the Latin that the Church used wasn't based on Classical
pronunciation, but rather a pronunciation that had evolved over a long
period of time, and was, IINM, influenced by Italian.

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