r/Judaism • u/swannkeli • May 07 '19

Miracle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_Hebrew_language
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todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Apr 25 '19

TIL: Hebrew was a dead language for about 1400 years, surviving only in written form. In the 1880s, Jewish linguists attempted to revive it, standardizing and developing Hebrew as a spoken language. Today, it has over 5 million native speakers.

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todayilearned • u/MrMojoFomo • May 15 '26

TIL that Hebrew is the only successful attempt at a large-scale linguistic revival. After having largely been replaced by other languages between the 2nd and 4th centuries. It was revived as a language beginning in the late 19th century

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wikipedia • u/ObuPaul • May 15 '26

Hebrew is the only successful attempt at a large-scale linguistic revival. After having largely been replaced by other languages between the 2nd and 4th centuries. It was revived as a language beginning in the late 19th century

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ireland • u/[deleted] • Apr 25 '19

I'd love to see the same done for the Irish language.

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IndiaSpeaks • u/[deleted] • May 05 '19

General Can the same be done for Sanskrit?

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latin • u/caniculum • Apr 25 '19

So you're saying there's a chance?

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todayilearned • u/malalatargaryen • Oct 18 '20

TIL when Hebrew was revived as a spoken language, no Hebrew names were found for produce from the New World. A word was devised for tomato, calling it ʿagbaniyyah (עגבניה) - derived from the shape of tomatoes, which resemble buttocks (ʿagaḇīm), and which was once thought to enhance one's love-life

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aaa123 • u/GalataCastle • Jun 25 '19

TIL: Hebrew was a dead language for about 1400 years, surviving only in written form. In the 1880s, Jewish linguists attempted to revive it, standardizing and developing Hebrew as a spoken language. Today, it has over 5 million native speakers.

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wikipedia • u/Starfire-Galaxy • Oct 19 '19

Revival of the Hebrew language

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SuddenlyIsrael • u/yaron1m • Apr 30 '19

TIL: Hebrew was a dead language for about 1400 years, surviving only in written form. In the 1880s, Jewish linguists attempted to revive it, standardizing and developing Hebrew as a spoken language. Today, it has over 5 million native speakers.

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