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Geoffrey Khan, a linguist, is bent on documenting Aramaic, the language of The Bible, and all of its dialects before the language-once the tongue of empires-follows its last speakers to the grave.

School pupils attend an Aramaic language course in Nicosia. In a village in northern Cyprus, a community struggling to save its ancient language has seen a glimmer of hope in intensified efforts to reunify the divided island.

Nineb Lamassu, a researcher at England's Cambridge University, travels among the Assyrian diaspora, recording the traditional epic poetry of the Assyrian ethnic minority and capturing at least the memory of an ancient people whose presence in their homeland is gradually fading.