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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Site of Palmyra' has mentioned 'Language' in the following places:
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| Contents 1 Etymology 2 Region and city layout 2.1 Layout 3 People, language, and society 3.1 Ethnicity of classical Palmyra 3.2 Language 3.3 Social organization 4 Culture 4.1 Art and architecture 5 Site 5.1 Cemeteries 5.2 Notable structures 5.2.1 Public buildings 5.2.2 Temples 5.2.3 Other buildings 5.3 Destruction by ISIL 5.3.1 Restoration 6 History 6.1 Early period 6.2 Hellenistic and Roman periods 6.2.1 Autonomous Palmyrene region 6.2.2 Palmyrene kingdom 6.2.2.1 Persian wars 6.2.2.2 Palmyrene empire 6.2.3 Later Roman and Byzantine periods 6.3 Arab caliphates 6.3.1 Umayyad and early Abbasid periods 6.3.2 Decentralization 6.4 Mamluk period 6.4.1 Al Fadl principality 6.5 Ottoman era 6.6 20th Century 6.7 Syrian Civil War 7 Government 7.1 Military 7.1.1 Relations with Rome 8 Religion 8.1 Malakbel and the Roman Sol Invictus 9 Economy 9.1 Commerce 10 Research and excavations 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 13.1 Citations 13.2 Sources 14 External links | WIKI |
| People, language, and society[edit] | WIKI |
| [note 5][66] Palmyrene diaspora members always made clear their Palmyrene origin and used the Palmyrene language, and maintained their distinct religion even when the host society's religion was close to that of Palmyra. | WIKI |
| Language[edit] | WIKI |
| [71][72] The use of Latin was minimal, but Greek was used by wealthier members of society for commercial and diplomatic purposes,[73] and it became the dominant language during the Byzantine era. | WIKI |
| [74] There are several theories explaining the disappearance of the Palmyrene language shortly after the campaigns of Aurelian. | WIKI |
| The linguist Jean Cantineau assumed that Aurelian suppressed all aspects of Palmyrene culture, including the language, but the last Palmyrene inscription dates to 279/280, after the death of the Roman emperor in 275, thus refuting such a theory. | WIKI |
| [75] Many scholars ascribe the disappearance of the language to a change in society resulting from the reorganization of the Eastern Roman frontier following the fall of Zenobia. | WIKI |
| [23] Hartmann suggested that it was a Palmyrene initiative by nobles allied to Rome attempting to express their loyalty to the emperor; Hartmann noted that Palmyrene disappeared in the written form, and that this does not mean its extinction as spoken language. | WIKI |