Sung in Aramaic

[TheLightWithin]

Our Father Sung in Aramaic - the Language spoken by Jesus Christ

This sounds lovely.

Was it ever common in Christendom - or lets say in Western Christendom - to have regular parishioners learn to sing or pray in Aramaic?
I suppose it may be or always have been the norm in Middle Eastern Christianity.
I don't know if anybody here knows about whether it was ever common in Western churches.

 

[Thomas]

Was it ever common? I very much doubt it.

Koine Greek would have been the lingua franca in the Eastern Mediterranean, while Latin in the West, Aramaic would have been regarded as a local dialect rather than a liturgical language, I would have thought. It survived in Syria, from whhere it emerged, but was displaced by Arabic in the wake of the spread of Islam.

The same goes for Coptic, a development of Egyptian dialect, which derived from Demotic Egyptian, from 7th century BCE to 5th CE.