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His 2-year-old great granddaughter. "one daughter is in australia," he says "and two sons are in the united states." ♪ >> reporter: sunday evening in the church is full. the service and dialect of airmayic the language spoken by jesus. prayers heavy with the simple appeal "deliver us from evil." ♪ >> reporter: cnn, northern iraq. he spent centuries laid to rest under what became a parking lot. now the remain of king richard iii are being given the royal burial they deserve. plus pop supe...

Our native language, we call it sindhi but it is an indian dialect. >> walk me through what it was like walking around with so many cultures going around. >> i got bullied very, very badly at school. because i was pretty much the only indian child in my year. i wanted to be like them. i would want to color my hair to make it lighter. and i would use bleach on my skin and so i really wanted to fit in. at the same time, when i met indian people, when my parents tried to arrange a marriage for me a...

>> so, right over there you can bet on a horse? >> we can bet horses, yes. people like to bet horses, and here you eat the one that lose. >> right. >> the loser goes on the fire. thats not a nice thing, but, i mean, sometimes it happens for real, huh? >> cycle of life. all right. [ speaking foreign language ] >> so why horse? where does this tradition come from? >> from arabs. maybe also egyptians. then we have greeks, 750 years before christ. then we have romans. because we have to say that sic...

Conquered by everybody. also our dialect. there are many words that are understood by other people. if i say sicilian dialect word, maybe an arab can understand me, an italian no, because italian language comes from latin, something different. we are sicilians before to be italians. >> right. >> remember this. >> ill never forget. >> look at this side of the meat. its yellow, its not white. when its yellow, it means that the horse has been bred eating fresh grass. [ speaking foreign language ] >...

Bound to be controversial but also bound to get a lot of attention. the writers tell abc news they spent six years working on the book, basing their arguments on an ancient manuscript dating back nearly 1,500 years. one they say they found in a british library. translating the next from an aramaic dialect into english. >> i dont think theres any credibility in these claims. there is simply no evidence in this text or anywhere else that jesus was married to mary magdalene, much less that they had...

President obama going forward and distancing herself with statements. today, vp biden said what you just heard him say. what about the distancing? >> you know, with biden you never know. he speaks his own dialect of english. you never know what he means. i afen think he doesnt know. if it was somebody else i might read into this. i think he got carried away on change. im not sure it was a conscious attempt to distance himself. looked like he was saying the change never happened but thats obvious...

Two school years. >> whos paying for them? >> we are. >> what special services do you have to provide for nearly 250 teenagers? i mean do they speak english? >> often they come in not speaking english and not even speaking spanish but speaking a tribal dialect, a village dialect from their home province, and in that case many of them are also illiterate in both of those languages. were really starting with older children, if you want to call them that, who have had little or no formal schooling....

Anything as a sign of anything other than ordinary suspicion and the patdown and everything else? >> listen, one thing, you notice a couple of things. hes obviously familiar with his captors. theres that moment there where they have a close-up of him where it looks like he might be cracking a smile of familiarity and of course that means they would have been speaking in the local dialect. after five years im sure he spoke it. probably a question of how good his english is now after so many years...

Talked about it before the news conference, hes been gone so long. its going to be difficult to come back and then after that he spoke to his son, in pashtun. you recognized the dialect. what was he saying to his son and why was he speaking pashtun. >> i want people to understand that hes been completely alone for five years with, no other americans, no other english speakers. i was held for seven months and as i said earlier. i had one afghan english speaker. he talked to his guards, i talked t...

Of course, because we are being conquered by everybody. also our dialect. there are many words that are understood by other people. if i say sicilian dialect word, maybe an arab can understand me, an italian no, because italian language comes from latin, something different. we are sicilians before to be italians. >> right. >> remember this. >> ill never forget. >> look at this side of the meat. its yellow, its not white. when its yellow, it means that the horse has been bred eating fresh grass....