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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