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Source? Obviously people have been speaking Hebrew all over the world as part of prayer and study, nobody would dispute that. But to my knowledge nobody was usi
by opportune 7y ago
Source? Obviously people have been speaking Hebrew all over the world as part of prayer and study, nobody would dispute that. But to my knowledge nobody was using Hebrew as a day-to-day language until Zionism became popular in the late 19th-20th centuries.
- c0vfefe 7y agoDepends on how strict your definition of language death, I suppose. AFAIK Hebrew has always been used in religious contexts by the Jewish diaspora.