"The greek word koine simply means common. By the time of the New Testament, the koine had become the lingua franca of the Middle East, replacing Aramaic ... Jesus spoke Aramaic. Thus when Horselover Fat began to think in koine Greek, he was thinking in the language which St. Luke and St. Paul - who were close friends - had used, at least to write with." Philip K. Dick,
Valis , p. 32
Aramaic </span class="head">
Coptic </span class="head">
- a Semitic language which evolved from ancient Egyptian. Coptic was an official language in Egypt until around the 13th Century AD, when it was replaced by Arabic
- the NagHammadi Library was written in Coptic
Koine</span class="head">
Sanskrit</span class="head">
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