{"id":468,"date":"2026-02-28T22:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2026-02-28T22:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:34:42","slug":"syriac-revival-why-language-is-identity-and-identity-is-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Syriac Revival: Why language is identity, and identity is national security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/syriacpress.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/syriac-revival-why-language-is-identity-and-identity-is-national-security-part-3-3\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Syriac Revival: Why language is identity, and identity is national security (Part 3\/3) - SyriacPress\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/syriacpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/03-Syriac_revival_christian_lebanon.jpg?fit=1153%2C655&amp;ssl=1\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">syriacpress.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Syriac Revival: Why language is identity, and identity is national security (Part 3\/3) &#8211; SyriacPress<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">By\u00a0Mario\u00a0Dayba\u00a0| Publisher of Christian Lebanon Every people is first defined by its language. Borders can shift. Parties can rise and fall. Institutions can be captured. But language is the deepest marker of continuity, because it carries the way a people names the world, prays, argues, remembers, and teaches its children. When a language retreats, a \u2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}