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Unique features of the Hebrew language:
- Hebrew is the only known language in human history to have ceased to be a spoken language and then revived again millennia later.
- Itamar Ben-Avi (1882-1943) was the first person in about 2,500 years to be a native speaker of Hebrew.
- Hebrew has two classical dialects: Ashkenazi and Sefardi. Modern Hebrew is based on the Sefardi dialect.
- The Hebrew name for God is never pronounced; in fact, the vowels are lost, and only the consonants of the name are known.
- Hebrew is one of two official languages of Israel, the other being Arabic.
- In Israel, it is not unusual for the parents to learn Hebrew from their children.
- The major spoken language most closely related to Hebrew is Arabic. Many words have the same or similar root consonants.
- The Hebrew language is governed by the Hebrew Language academy, which creates new words out of existing Hebrew roots. The Biblical Hebrew word צלם (image) was used to create the modern words for camera (מצלמה) and Photography (צילום).
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