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Hebrew could have been considered a "Dead" language until it became the state language of Israel.
by zaksoup 6y ago
Hebrew could have been considered a "Dead" language until it became the state language of Israel.
- throwaway894345 6y agoHebrew was considered a dead language, as I understand it. It's the only language to have been successfully resurrected.
- bawolff 6y agoHuh? It was used in religious services before that and many people could speak/understand it. I don't think its dead until people actually stop using it.
- aksss 6y agoThere's rulz.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death
- zaksoup 6y agoThere's some internal debate about this in the Jewish community. Many Russian Jews were actively speaking Hebrew and publishing, for instance, Hebrew newspapers while western European Jews were mostly speaking Yiddish. Regardless I think my point is that language is a really important part of culture and saying "only 3 people speak this" doesn't ring true to me as a good reason not to treat any language as culturally important or relevant.