Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Modern Hebrew

1880 CE – today Living

Modern Hebrew (1880 CE – today) is a living Afro-Asiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → … → Mishnaic Hebrew → Medieval Hebrew → Modern Hebrew.

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Speakers
9M (9,000,000)
ISO 639-3
heb
Glottocode
hebr1245

Revived as a spoken language in the late 19th and early 20th century, led by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, drawing on Biblical, Mishnaic and Medieval Hebrew. Parent is the written Medieval Hebrew tradition; there were no native speakers between roughly 200 CE and the 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
  9. Modern Hebrew1880 CE – today

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