Know About Persecuted Jews From the Time of Mohammed

HISTORY BEHIND HEBREW COMMUNITY

Hebrew History Major Periods Biblical or Classical • Until 3rd century BC • Most of the Old Testament is written

Medieval • 6th - 13th century AD • Borrows Greek, Spanish, Arabic words and from other languages

Mishnaic or Rabbinic • Language of the Mishna: collection of Jewish traditions • Mishnaic Hebrew spoken Rabbinic Hebrew written • 200 AD - 6th century AD Haskala and Modern • Europe (1770-1880) • Language of Israel (1886 present)

Revival of Hebrew • • • •

Based on biblical language

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Syntax based on that of the Mishna

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Written from right to left in a Semitic script of 22 letters

Innovations to meet modern needs Only colloquial speech based on a written language Pronunciation based on Sepharadic (HispanoPortuguese) Jews rather than Ashkenazi (East European) Jews Use of word three-consonants roots with vowels and other consonants added k.t.v yields kotev (writes)

Language policy of Israel TODAY

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

HEBREW

ARABIC

Semi-Official ENGLISH

Multilingualism in Israel

Israel is a complex, multilingual, multicultural society !

A linguists Heaven!!!

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