The world: historical and actual . Christians and a fewJews among the native population, but for the mostpart Mohammedanism is the prevailing religion. Thelanguage now mainly in use is Arabic. The oldSyriac, or Aramaic, has nearly died out. ModernGreek is understood and largely used on the Syriac is a dialect of Shemitic language knownto us through a Christian literature extending backto the second century of our era, and which flour-ished until the Saracen Empire arose, and the Crossgave way to the Crescent. A great deal of primi-tive Christian literature is preserved in that lan-gu

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The world: historical and actual . Christians and a fewJews among the native population, but for the mostpart Mohammedanism is the prevailing religion. Thelanguage now mainly in use is Arabic. The oldSyriac, or Aramaic, has nearly died out. ModernGreek is understood and largely used on the Syriac is a dialect of Shemitic language knownto us through a Christian literature extending backto the second century of our era, and which flour-ished until the Saracen Empire arose, and the Crossgave way to the Crescent. A great deal of primi-tive Christian literature is preserved in that lan-guage. But the most notable distinction of theSyriac is its ancient versions of the New also has at least two very old versions of the OldTestament. In determining the correct text of thesacred volume these venerable manuscripts are ofinestimable importance. The Syriac language is initself a curious monument of repeated conquests,containing as it does a great many words of , Latin, Arabic and Tartar ?*> J^ i ite-

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