Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Mishnaic Hebrew

c. 200 BCE – 500 CE Classical

Mishnaic Hebrew (c. 200 BCE – 500 CE) is a classical Afro-Asiatic language. It has 2 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → … → Proto-Northwest Semitic → Biblical Hebrew → Mishnaic Hebrew.

See Mishnaic Hebrew on the interactive map

Hebrew of the Mishnah, Tosefta and early rabbinic literature. Likely a spoken vernacular until c. 200 CE, then a literary language (Amoraic Hebrew).

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

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