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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Syria!
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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Syria!

Once a vibrant hub of trade, culture and commerce now embroiled in a bloody civil war, chances are you rarely think about Syria, let alone the languages of Syria. But interestingly, there some of the most diverse in the notoriously uniform Middle East. Indeed, the country of 17.5 million inhabitants has languages from all corners of East and West, including those with hundreds of millions, if not billions, of speakers worldwide and others, with only a few million located solely in Syria. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Language of Syria Arabic Dialects of Arabic Syrian Arabic Levantine Arabic Damascus Arabic Lebanese Arabic Homs Arabic Hama Arabic Tartus Arabic Iraqi Arabic Palestinian Arabic Foreign ...
17 oldest languages in the world!
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17 oldest languages in the world!

Many languages vie for the title of being the oldest language in the world. However, there is only one that can be the oldest, so what language is it? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 17. Icelandic (1200 years) Icelandic is perhaps one of the oldest languages that is still spoken in the world today. Icelandic is native to the island of Iceland, as well as 350,000 native speakers. Icelandic began as a combination of Danish and indigenous languages. However, once the Danish stopped bringing new colonizers during the twelfth century, Icelandic became akin to a language isolate. Icelandic is a very good indication of what Old Norse and Old Danish looked and sounded like. As a result of its age and its isolation, Icelandic has become one of t...