Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Medieval Hebrew

c. 500 CE – 1880 CE Classical

Medieval Hebrew (c. 500 CE – 1880 CE) is a classical Afro-Asiatic language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → … → Biblical Hebrew → Mishnaic Hebrew → Medieval Hebrew.

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Literary, liturgical and scholarly Hebrew of the post-Talmudic period (piyyut, Tiberian Masoretes, Andalusian poetry, rabbinic writing). Not a native vernacular, but continuously written until the modern 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
  7. Mishnaic Hebrewc. 200 BCE – 500 CE
  8. Medieval Hebrewc. 500 CE – 1880 CE

Descendants 1

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