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• Is that not amazing? In the Roman Empire, as we have already looked at in our lesson on the subject, Aramaic was still a spoken language - as far afield as Britain! Soldiers in Britain actually spoke and wrote Aramaic - Syriac in particular, the very language in which the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament was written! Syriac was spoken all across the Middle East, but as far west as Britain, and as far east as Kerala in India! And Syriac also goes back in time as far as the fifth century B.C.! Its origins lie with the Assyrian Empire, just as we have seen in our lessons, as we walked through the use of Aramaic in the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires!