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About the Hebrew Language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic
language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel
and Jewish communities around the world. In Israel, it is the
de facto language of the state and the people, as well as being
one of the two official languages (together with Arabic), and
it is spoken by a majority of the population.
The core of the Tanach (the Hebrew Bible) is written
in Classical Hebrew, and much of its present form is specifically
the dialect of Biblical Hebrew that scholars believe flourished
around the 6th century BCE, near the Babylonian exile. For this
reason, Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as "The Holy
Language", since ancient times.
Most linguists agree that after the 6th century
BCE when the Neo-Babylonian Empire destroyed Jerusalem and exiled
its population to Babylon and Cyrus The Great, the King of Kings
or Great King of Persia gave them their freedom to return, the
Biblical Hebrew dialect prevalent in the Bible came to be replaced
in daily use by new dialects of Hebrew and a local version of
Aramaic. After the 2nd century CE when the Roman Empire exiled
the Jewish population of Jerusalem and parts of the Bar Kokhba
State, Hebrew gradually ceased to be a spoken language, but remained
a major literary language. Letters, contracts, commerce, science,
philosophy, medicine, poetry, and laws were written in Hebrew,
which adapted by borrowing and inventing terms.
Hebrew, long extinct outside of Jewish liturgical
and scholarly purposes, was revived as a literary and narrative
language by the Haskalah (Enlightenment) movement of the mid-19th
century. Near the end of that century the Jewish linguist Eliezer
Ben-Yehuda, owing to the ideology of Zionism, began reviving Hebrew
as a modern spoken and written language. Eventually it replaced
a score of languages spoken by Jews at that time, such as Arabic,
Ladino (also called Judezmo), Yiddish, Russian, and other languages
of the Jewish diaspora.
Because of its large disuse for centuries, Hebrew
lacked many modern words. Several were adapted as neologisms from
the Hebrew Bible or borrowed from Yiddish and other languages
by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Modern Hebrew became an official language
in British-ruled Palestine in 1921 (along with English and Arabic),
and then in 1948 became an official language of the newly declared
State of Israel.
Source:Wikipedia
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