Modern Hebrew
Revived Semitic tongue
Modern Hebrew is the form of Hebrew revived as a spoken everyday language in the late 19th and 20th centuries, now the primary language of Israel.
Ancient Hebrew had survived mainly in religious and literary contexts for nearly two millennia before its deliberate revival as a living vernacular.
Modern Hebrew incorporates vocabulary and grammatical features adapted for contemporary life while maintaining continuity with biblical and medieval Hebrew texts.
Israeli Mediterranean port city
- JerusalemTriply sacred ancient capital
- kibbutzIsraeli communal farm
- sabraSpiny fruit or local
- HaifaIsraeli coastal metropolis
Negev · Galilee · Golan · shekel · aliyah · IDF · Knesset · Ashkenazi
Restoring vigor or vitality
- language revivalEffort to restore endangered speech
- neologismsNewly invented words
- standardizationImplementing uniform technical specifications
- spoken languageAudible verbal communication system
Language's letter system
- aleph-betJewish writing's character set
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- vocabularyOne's word collection
root system · conjugation · morphology · phonology · pronunciation · definite article · loanwords · slang
Judaism's core scripture
- TanakhJewish scriptural canon
- GenesisFirst biblical book
- ExodusMass departure from a place
- prophetsProclaimers of sacred truth
psalms · ancient · scriptural · classical · liturgical · sacred texts · Dead Sea Scrolls · rabbinic
Ancient Semitic language
- ArabicSemitic language family member
- PhoenicianAncient Lebanese seafarer
- AkkadianAncient Semitic Mesopotamian language
- CanaaniteAncient Levantine people
Amharic · Maltese · cognates · root system · guttural · language family
Tel Aviv
Israeli Mediterranean port city
Haifa · Negev · Galilee · Golan · shekel · aliyah · IDF · Knesset · Ashkenazi · Sephardi
revitalization
Restoring vigor or vitality
- language revivalEffort to restore endangered speech
- neologismsNewly invented words
- standardizationImplementing uniform technical specifications
spoken language · national language · Zionism · modernization · adaptation
alphabet
Language's letter system
- aleph-betJewish writing's character set
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
- syntaxRules for arranging words
vocabulary · root system · conjugation · morphology · phonology · pronunciation · definite article · loanwords · slang
Torah
Judaism's core scripture
prophets · psalms · ancient · scriptural · classical · liturgical · sacred texts · Dead Sea Scrolls · rabbinic · exegesis
Aramaic
Ancient Semitic language
- ArabicSemitic language family member
- PhoenicianAncient Lebanese seafarer
- AkkadianAncient Semitic Mesopotamian language
Canaanite · Amharic · Maltese · cognates · root system · guttural · language family
- Canaanite LanguagesCanaanite, Phoenician, Punic, Moabite
- Hebrew varieties
- Hebrewaleph, bet, ayin, lamed, shin
- Hebrew Revivallanguage revival, neologisms
- Jewish LanguagesYiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Spanish
- Standard Languagesstandard language, Mandarin Chinese, High German, BBC English, Oxford English
Modern Hebrewdead language
Tongue no longer spoken natively
extinct language · Ancient Greek · Sanskrit · Latin · Akkadian