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Remember that's the Unesco who wrote this, and they have an anti-Zionist political skew. They make a point of separating "Modern Hebrew" from "Hebrew".
by sharikous 3y ago
Remember that's the Unesco who wrote this, and they have an anti-Zionist political skew.
They make a point of separating "Modern Hebrew" from "Hebrew".
- yorwba 3y agoThey're also separating "Chaouia of the Aures in Algeria" https://en.wal.unesco.org/countries/algeria/languages/chaouia-aures https://en.wal.unesco.org/countries/algeria/languages/chaoui... from "Chaouia of the Aures in Algeria" https://en.wal.unesco.org/countries/algeria/languages/chaouia-aures-1 https://en.wal.unesco.org/countries/algeria/languages/chaoui... so I don't think any political skew is involved at all, their data is just a mess.
- ihm 3y agoHebrew is a much broader linguistic phenomenon than just modern Hebrew. Hebrew existed as a spoken language thousands of years ago and has existed continuously since then in many different forms in different Jewish communities primarily as a liturgical language. Modern Hebrew (or probably “Israeli Hebrew” would be more accurate) was then constituted as a vernacular fairly recently as part of the Zionist project of creating a new national identity, distinct from the existing identities of the Jewish populations would emigrated to Israel.
- TRiG_Ireland 3y agoThey also separate Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Greek. Is that a political agenda too?
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