Scholars debate the degree to which Hebrew was a spoken vernacular in ancient times following the Babylonian exile when the predominant international language in the region was Old Aramaic.
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Scholars debate the degree to which Hebrew was a spoken vernacular in ancient times following the Babylonian exile when the predominant international language in the region was Old Aramaic.
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In July 2008, Israeli archaeologist Yossi Garfinkel discovered a ceramic shard at Khirbet Qeiyafa that he claimed may be the earliest Hebrew language writing yet discovered, dating from around 3, 000 years ago.
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Less ancient samples of Archaic Hebrew language include the ostraca found near Lachish, which describe events preceding the final capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian captivity of 586 BCE.
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The phases of Classical Hebrew language are often named after important literary works associated with them.
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Qumran scrolls indicate that Hebrew texts were readily understandable to the average Israelite, and that the language had evolved since Biblical times as spoken languages do.
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The dialects organize into Mishnaic Hebrew, which was a spoken language, and Amoraic Hebrew ( called Late Rabbinic Hebrew or Mishnaic Hebrew II), which was a literary language.
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Mishnaic Hebrew is considered to be one of the dialects of Classical Hebrew that functioned as a living language in the land of Israel.
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Nevertheless, Hebrew survived as a liturgical and literary language in the form of later Amoraic Hebrew, which sometimes occurs in the text of the Gemara.
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Major result of the literary work of the Hebrew language intellectuals along the 19th century was a lexical modernization of Hebrew language.
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The first secular periodical in Hebrew language, HaMe'assef, was published by maskilim in Konigsberg (today's Kaliningrad) from 1783 onwards.
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Hebrew language joined the Jewish national movement and in 1881 immigrated to Palestine, then a part of the Ottoman Empire.
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The seeds of Ben-Yehuda's work fell on fertile ground, and by the beginning of the 20th century, Hebrew was well on its way to becoming the main language of the Jewish population of both Ottoman and British Palestine.
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Yosef Begun, Ephraim Kholmyansky, Yevgeny Korostyshevsky and others responsible for a Hebrew language learning network connecting many cities of the USSR.
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Standard Hebrew language, as developed by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, was based on Mishnaic spelling and Sephardi Hebrew language pronunciation.
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However, the earliest speakers of Modern Hebrew had Yiddish as their native language and often introduced calques from Yiddish and phono-semantic matchings of international words.
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The number of attested Rabbinic Hebrew words is less than 20, 000, of which 7879 are Rabbinic par excellence, i e they did not appear in the Old Testament (the number of new Rabbinic Hebrew roots is 805); (ii) around 6000 are a subset of Biblical Hebrew; and (iii) several thousand are Aramaic words which can have a Hebrew form.
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In Israel, Modern Hebrew language is currently taught in institutions called Ulpanim.
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The bill's author, MK Akram Hasson, stated that the bill was proposed as a response to Hebrew language "losing its prestige" and children incorporating more English words into their vocabulary.
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Also, Hebrew is an official national minority language in Poland, since 6 January 2005.
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The ancient paleo-Hebrew language alphabet resembles those used for Canaanite and Phoenician.
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Sephardi Hebrew language is the traditional pronunciation of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews and Sephardi Jews in the countries of the former Ottoman Empire, with the exception of Yemenite Hebrew language.
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Mizrahi Hebrew language is actually a collection of dialects spoken liturgically by Jews in various parts of the Arab and Islamic world.
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