Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Biblical Hebrew

1,200 BCE – 200 CE Classical

Biblical Hebrew (1,200 BCE – 200 CE) is a classical Afro-Asiatic language. It has 3 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → Proto-West Semitic → Proto-Central Semitic → Proto-Northwest Semitic → Biblical Hebrew.

See Biblical Hebrew on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
hbo

The Canaanite language of the Hebrew Bible. Ceased to be a spoken everyday language around 200 CE; survived as a liturgical/literary language until the late-19th-century revival.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Semiticc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  3. Proto-West Semiticc. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  4. Proto-Central Semiticc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  5. Proto-Northwest Semiticc. 2,000 BCE – 1,200 BCE
  6. Biblical Hebrew1,200 BCE – 200 CE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Northwest Semitic.

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