The Cypriot village of Kormakitis is the last bastion of a language once spoken by tens of thousands of people. Maronites are ...

In Cyprus, a language called Cypriot Maronite Arabic, or Sanna, faces extinction, with only 900 speakers remaining.

Until less than two decades ago, there was no written script, or even an alphabet, since parents transmitted ... Sanna at its root is a semitic language that, unlike other Arabic dialects ...

Until less than two decades ago, there was no written script, or even an alphabet, since parents transmitted ... village of Kormakitis in the breakaway north of the ethnically divided Cyprus ...

They were an ancient Semitic group, and Phoenicia was a long coastal strip ... regions and established colonies throughout the Mediterranean, including Carthage in North Africa and Gadir (Cádiz) on ...