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...Hebrew (, ,) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Culturally, it is considered a Jewish language. Hebrew in its modern form is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel while Classical Hebrew has been used for prayer or study in Jewish communities around the world for over two thousand years. It is one of the official languages of Israel, along with Arabic. Ancient Hebrew is also the liturgical tongue of the Samaritans, while modern Hebrew or Palestinian Arabic is their vernacular, though today about 700 Samaritans remain. As a foreign language it is studied mostly by Jews and students of Judaism and Israel, archaeologists and linguists specializing in the Middle East and its civilizations, by theologians, and in Christian seminaries. Read full entry
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Hebrew language?
What is the advantages of
Hebrew language?
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Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than 6 million people, mainly in Israel, the West Bank, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. The core of the Tanakh (sometimes referred to as the Hebrew Bible), the Torah (which Christianity and Judaism traditionally hold to have been first recorded in the time of Moses 3,300 years ago), is written in (Biblical) Classical Hebrew. Jews have always called it לשון הקודש Lashon ha-Qodesh ("The Sacred Language") as the scriptures written in this language were considered sacred. Most scholars agree that after the first destruction of Jerusalem by the Nebuchadnezzar II and the Babylonians in 586 BCE, the kind of Hebrew prevalent in the Tanakh was replaced in daily use by Mishnaic Hebrew and a local version of Aramaic. After the depletion of the Jewish population of parts of Roman occupied Judea, it is believed that Hebrew gradually ceased to be a spoken language roughly around 200 CE, but has stayed as the major written language throughout the centuries. Not only religious, but texts for a large variety of purposes: letters and contracts, science, philosophy, medicine, poetry, protocols of courts—all resorted to Hebrew, which thus adapted itself to various new fields and terminologies by borrowings and new inventions. Hebrew was revitalized as a spoken language during the late 19th and early 20th century as Modern Hebrew, replacing a score of languages spoken by the Jews at that time, such as Arabic, Judezmo (also called Ladino), Yiddish, Russian, and other languages of the Jewish diaspora as the spoken language of the majority of the Jewish people living in Israel. Modern Hebrew became an official language in British-ruled Palestine in 1921, and the primary official language of the State of Israel, (Arabic maintained its official language status). The Hebrew name for the language is עברית, or ‘Ivrit (IPA: /ivʲrit/) |
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What is the meaning of I was just wondering what
"Nasrani" meant in the hebrew
language?
Is it the same as "netzarim"?
Did the nasranis and netzari
people originate from the same
people?
Thanks a bunch!
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Never heard about "nasrani" or "netzari" people. It could have the same origin, as Hebrew 'tz' (Tzadi) is transliterated to Arabic as "Sad" and then when it's back to Hebrew or English it's 's'. The stem "n.tz.r" has the meanings of "keeper" and "scion". It's also the stem of the Hebrew word for Christianity ("Natzrut"), named after Jesus's origin (the city of Natzrat). |
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Israelis: When you speak Israelis, do you find that
when you're outside of Israel
people can recognize the
Hebrew language being spoken
or not? When you speak Hebrew
in public outside of Israel
(assuming you are just around
random people). Does anyone
ever ask you what language
you're speaking?
When I'm in the U.S. and I
speak Hebrew in public people
sometimes give me dirty looks
or just stare sometimes, so I
wonder if they recognize the
language or not.
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A friend of mine had a funny story on this topic. He and his friend were on an airport terminal, talking Hebrew, and a Texan-cowboy-style man approached them and asked - "This French you're speaking - is it Canadian French? or French French?" (of course, they answered "French-French", and he said "Hmm, I thought so"). From my personal experience, one English guy has mistaken Hebrew for Farsi. |
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