Language
The people of Tel Isqof speak Syriac a Neo-Aramaic dialect as their first language; however, Arabic is their second language which is used in their schools.
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“But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of command and counsel as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations.”
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