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TjiKalanga to Become a Language of Science and Technology Like Hebrew.

Submitted by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo. We the People Shall Overcome Fun Fact: did you know that upon conquest by the Kingdoms of Babylonia and Samaria, and later the Graeco-Roman Empire, Hebrew was displaced by Aramaic and later Greek, so much that it only became a language of a few religious Jews and on the verge of extinction? Aramaic Displacement of Hebrew. After the Roman General Titus Flavius Vespasianus Augustus and his 2IC Tiberius Julius Alexander overran Jerusalem and Judea in AD70 during the Siege of Jerusalem and completely ransacking it (and later being overrun by the Turkish Ottoman Empire), Hebrew almost got wiped out, being replaced by Aramaic and later Arabic in Judea and Samaria (later called Palestine).  However, when the Zionist Movement began with the World Zionist Congress in Basil, Switzerland chaired by Dr. Theodore Herzl in 1897, the long road toward the revival of the Jewish State and the Hebrew Language began.  About the same time, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda bega