How to Save a Dying Language, Geoffrey Khan is racing to document Aramaic, the language of Jesus, before its native speakers vanish
By Ariel Sabar Smithsonian magazine, February 2013 It was a sunny morning in May, and I was in a car with a linguist and a tax preparer trolling the suburbs of Chicago for native speakers of Aramaic, the 3,000-year-old language of Jesus. The linguist, Geoffrey Khan of the University of Cambridge, was nominally in town to …