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No. Hebrew was revived by Eliezer ben-Yehuda in the 1880's, and by 1948, it had more than one million native speakers.

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No. The revival of Modern Hebrew began in the 1880s, with Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. By 1948, Modern Hebrew had more than 1 million native speakers.

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