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The Hebrew language is a language of the Northwest Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Words similar to Hebrew can be found in Egyptian and Babylonian texts as far back as the 15th century BC.
From around 1250 BC, Ancient Hebrew or Biblical Hebrew was used as the language of the Old Testament and the religious Jewish faith. As a spoken language, it was displaced by Aramaic from the fifth century BC and was no longer spoken after 200 AD. Middle Hebrew or Mishnaic Hebrew, which developed around the time of the birth of Christ, became the language of Jewish literature; it developed a new vocabulary with numerous Latin and Greek loanwords and a simplified grammar. The Zionist movement at the end of the 19th century brought about a revival of Hebrew as a spoken language – the fusion of Biblical Hebrew with Mishnaic Hebrew gave rise to Modern Hebrew, referred to as “Ivrit.”
Since 1948, Modern Hebrew has been the official language of Israel together with Arabic and is spoken as the national language there by around five million people. It features many newly coined, contemporary terms and numerous loanwords from European languages. The Hebrew script is a consonant alphabet, in which dots are used to represent vowels. The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. Modern Hebrew uses two genders, a definite article and three tenses. There are Sephardic, Ashkenazic and Yemenite pronunciation systems for Hebrew – for official use, the Sephardic pronunciation has been adopted, which stresses the last syllable.
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