HUMA 17000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Spoken Language, Haskalah, Written Language
2 Feb 2017
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The process of hebrew"s return to regular usage is unique; it depended heavily on inter- generational transmission. Revival took place at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, first as a written language and then as a spoken language. Ancient hebrew was spoken from 10th century bce to the late second temple period (2nd. Century bce), after which the language developed into mishnaic (talmudic) hebrew. 2nd century ce, hebrew was not spoken as a mother tongue. The fifty years preceding the start of the revival process, a version of spoken hebrew already existed in the markets of jerusalem. Haskalah, the jewish movement paralleling the englightenment. (cid:862)me(cid:374)dele(cid:863) (1(cid:1012)46 1917), whose given name was ya"akov abramovitch, started to write in hebrew during this time, using rabbinic vocabulary but innovations from european languages, such as ladino and yiddish. Later these innovations would become much more extensive.
