Ethnographers are entranced by a distinct dialect that continues to contain words from ancient Dorian Greek.

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It's a malevolence so ancient there are no new words for it, and so the old ones will have to do.

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The codex (Latin for "book") dates to the sixth century, when Christian Palestinian scribes wrote down the words of Christ in Aramaic, the ancient language that is believed to have been close to the dialect spoken by the messiah himself.

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