ALL natural languages started out as spoken languages, including Hebrew. Writing came much later.
In prehistoric times, before there was written language to make a record of it. Possibly before there was much in the way of spoken language, either. Think in terms of cave men.
They actually had no written language so they made a civilization of language not written language
The first five books of The Bible were translated from the original Hebrew- that's a start!
There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages. But there is no such language as "Indian".
HebrewAdditional Answer:What is termed the Old Testament was primarily Hebrew with some parts in Aramaic. Termed New Testament was primarily Greek and perhaps some in Hebrew before/afterwards.
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Greece has never used the French language, although French is a widely spoken second language all over Europe, including Greece.
There has probably been profanity and obscenity in language since the spoken language was originally developed thousands of years ago.
If a mistake is written on the torah then the writter has to start again no matter how far into writting it he/she is! is is written in hebrew and backwards.
Always. The word Hebrew is a language, a culture and a religion. In all cases it needs a capital letter at the start.
Jewish tradition states that the Hebrew language was directly from God. It was the language with which He created the world (Rashi commentary, Genesis 2:23, quoting the midrash); and it is the language in which He spoke on Mount Sinai.Since it is a holy language and is used for prayer and the teaching of religious tradition, it was not spoken in mundane contexts and wasn't taught to just anyone. It was handed down from individual teachers to disciples as part of the original tradition; and the same goes for the art of writing (letters on parchment, as opposed to cuneiform or hieroglyphics). Thus, certain Hebrew Psalms (92 and 139) and teachings are attributed to Adam, the first man. The wider public, most of whom descended relatively quickly into idolatry and sin, were not given access to the treasures of the original tradition, since by their actions they implicitly repudiated it.After the Flood, the Hebrew language had a brief period in which it was generally known, thanks to Noah (see Rashi commentary on Genesis 11:1). This is why many hundreds of Hebrew words have cognates in languages as diverse as German and Japanese. The alphabet, which secular scholars trace back to the Greeks (Alpha, Beta) and from there to the Phoenicians, is according to our tradition actually one step older than that: it is a variant of the Hebrew aleph-bet, which those of the Phoenicians and Greeks closely mimic. The earliest known Greek inscription (the Dipylon) was written from right to left.After the Flood also, the knowledge of Hebrew eventually declined (see Genesis ch.11) and was preserved only among the Western Semites, the ancestors and cousins of Abraham. Eber, from whom our word "Hebrew" (Ivrit) is named, was a Semitic descendant of Noah and ancestor of Abraham. He was one of the major transmitters of the original traditions. He is credited with having broadened the Hebrew language, and some Hebrew grammatical constructs are attributed to him by certain Jewish researchers.As time passes, languages grow and adapt. Thus today we can identify many Hebrew words and types of usage that go all the way back (these are the ones that are most likely to be found in the Hebrew Bible and to have cognates in other languages). And then there are Late Biblical Hebrew; the Hebrew of the Mishna; Medieval Hebrew, and so on. All of these have a broad overlap, but each has introduced its added vocabulary-words and usages.Today, Torah-Hebrew includes some words that were borrowed from the Persian, some words taken from ancient Greece, Aramaic words, etc.Note that Hebrew never died out among the Jewish people, since it has always been used in Rabbinical writings and in the prayer-services and daily blessings.
It depends on what is called "Japanese". If "Japanese" means the people who speak Japanese, it answers for itself. They've always spoken it, but for a long time they was no known written record. it was only when they started contacts (religious or trade) with china that they acquired a textual language. Since the earliest records of Japanese, the language hasn't gone dramatic changes, except in vocabulary. If "Japanese" is the inhabitants of Japan, it is difficult to know, as aercheology does show the language spoken by the people producing the artifacts. Some people known through imperial chronicles might have spoken languages akin to Ainu, the language that was spoken in Hokkaido. In Hokkaido and Okinawa respectively, Japanese started being used in the XIXth and XXth century, after it was conquered and annexed.