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Yes, Hebrew is an Old language spoken by Jews, but it is also the newest native language on the planet: Modern Hebrew was resurrected starting in the 1880s by Eliezar Ben-Yehuda.

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What ethnicity is Hebrew?

"Hebrew" is not a race, but a language that is a "cousin" of Aramaic, and can be traced to Old Canaanite.


Is the adamic language and Hebrew the same?

This answer is based on linguistics and history:No. Hebrew language appears to have evolved from Old Canaanite. (Both Hebrew and Old Canaanite are dialects of each other, and they are too close to be explained by anything other than a common origin). Proto-Hebrew can be used to refer to Hebrew from the time when it wasn't differentiated from Canaanite or Ugaritic.The term Adamic language is just a literary description of the language spoken by Adam and Eve, and has no basis in science. Adam and Eve are important figures in the Bible, but they're not considered historical figures in science or history.


Do the Hebrew isralites exist today?

Yep, entire Israel speaks Hebrew,that's more than7 million people.according to wikipedia:Hebrew in its modern form is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel


What language did people speak before Aramaic?

If you're talking about the region of the land of Israel, Hebrew and Old Canaanite were spoken before Aramaic.


Is Hebrew a language?

Yes. It's the language in which the Tanakh ("old testament") was originally written. It has been used continuously since then as the language of Jewish prayer and study, and is the most widely spoken language in modern Israel.


What is the difference between hebrew and Jewish?

Hebrew is a language of the Afro-Asiatic family, spoken by about 6 million people, either as a first or second language (mainly in Israel). Jewish describes an ethno-religious group of people, who mainly practice Judaism in one form or another, although there are also secular Jews. Some people also use the word Jewish to describe the Yiddish language, which is a dialect of low German influenced by the languages of 11 different European countries. This is a somewhat inaccurate use of the word 'Jewish', though, since there are other languages spoken by Jews that are also sometimes called 'Jewish'.


What language was spoken in Normandy in 1066?

The primary language spoken in Normandy in 1066 was Old Norman, which was a dialect of Old French. This language was used by the Norman nobility and court.


How did yiddish begin?

During Roman Times, the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. This angered the Jews of the area (who by the way spoke Aramaic, a language similar to Hebrew and the lingua franca of the Middle East) so they began leaving Israel for places like Iraq, Turkey Greece, Italy, Egypt, and Persia. Greek and Italian Jews traveled through Europe and by the fall of the Roman Empire ended in France. They spoke a Romance Judeo-Old French type language called "La'az" at the time. After a while, these Jews migrated east to Germany. They adopted the Old High German language spoken at the time, but often mixed in a bit of La'az, Hebrew, and Aramaic and boom! Yiddish was born.


What is the other name for the Hebrew Bible?

For Jews, the Hebrew Bible is called the Tanakh. For Christians it is the Old Testament.


What was the language spoken to the Jews in Spain?

If you had just asked what language the Jews of Spain spoke, the question would have been easy. Jews spoke to one-another in Ladino, also known as Judaeo-Spanish. They also spoke the standard Spanish of the time.What language was spoken to Jews depends on who was speaking to them. Muslims (Arabs, Muladíes, and Amazigh/Moors) would typically speak to them in Arabic. Spaniards would usually speak to them in the various Spanish languages, like Old Castilian, Leonese, Old Catalonian and Aragonese. The Spanish languages and Ladino are more-or-less mutually intelligible, so the Jews could respond in Ladino.


What is an old language spoken in Switzerland?

Romansch, which is a latin based language.


Who says the original language of the old testment is Hebrew?

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