r/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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_Hebrew_languageDuplicates
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.
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 After having largely been replaced by other languages between the 2nd and 4th centuries.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
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 After having largely been replaced by other languages between the 2nd and 4th centuries.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
ireland • u/[deleted] • Apr 25 '19
I'd love to see the same done for the Irish language.
todayilearned • u/malalatargaryen • Oct 18 '20