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Title: Only 900 speakers of the Sanna language remain. Now Cyprus' Maronites are mounting a comeback
Post by: wayne on May 24, 2025, 05:38:31 AM

Only 900 speakers of the Sanna language remain. Now Cyprus' Maronites are mounting a comeback

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (AP) ? Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis' cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of extinction, one that partly traces its roots to the language Jesus Christ once spoke.
Source: Only 900 speakers of the Sanna language remain. Now Cyprus' Maronites are mounting a comeback (https://www.thestar.com/news/world/europe/only-900-speakers-of-the-sanna-language-remain-now-cyprus-maronites-are-mounting-a-comeback/article_2f995114-2d30-5d4a-aa0a-f2e7da48069f.html)