HISTORY BEHIND HEBREW COMMUNITY
Hebrew History Major Periods
Biblical or Classical
• Until 3rd century BC
• Most of the Old Testament is written
Mishnaic or Rabbinic
• Language of the Mishna: collection of Jewish traditions
• Mishnaic Hebrew spoken Rabbinic Hebrew written
• 200 AD - 6th century ADMedieval
• 6th - 13th century AD
• Borrows Greek, Spanish, Arabic words and from other languages
Haskala and Modern • Europe (1770-1880)• Language of Israel (1886 -
present)
Revival of Hebrew
• Based on biblical language
• Innovations to meet modern needs
• Only colloquial speech based on a written language
• Pronunciation based on Sepharadic (Hispano-Portuguese) Jews rather than Ashkenazi (East European) Jews
• Syntax based on that of the Mishna
• Use of word three-consonants roots with vowels and other consonants added k.t.v yields kotev (writes)
• Written from right to left in a Semitic script of 22 letters
Language policy of Israel TODAY
OFFICIALLANGUAGES
HEBREW ARABICSemi-Official
ENGLISH
Multilingualism in Israel
Israel is a complex, multilingual,
multicultural society !
A linguists Heaven!!!
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