Claim: Benyamin's love for the Neo-Aramaic language developed early on when his father taught him to read and write Neo-Aramaic (classified as an Afro-Asiatic language that evolved during the late medieval and early modern periods); then by the time he was 17, he fell in love with the art of calligraphy.
Evidence: Benyamin's love for the Neo-Aramaic language developed early on when his father, who was originally from Salamas, Iran, taught him to read and write Neo-Aramaic. Afro-Asiatic The Neo-Aramaic or Modern Aramaic languages are varieties of Aramaic, that evolved during the late medieval and early modern periods, and continue to the present day as vernacular (spoken) languages of modern Aramaic-speaking communities. By the time Benyamin was seventeen, he fell in love with the art of calligraphy and began mastering it under the tutelage of Bishop Havil Zaya, the Archbishop of Urmia and Salamas.