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Modern Hebrew (Hebrew: עִבְרִית חֲדָשָׁה [ʔivˈʁit χadaˈʃa] or [ʕivˈrit ħadaˈʃa]), also called Israeli Hebrew or simply Hebrew, is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today.
Modern Hebrew became an official language in British-ruled Palestine in 1921 (along with English and Arabic), and then in 1948 became an official language of the newly declared State of Israel. Hebrew is the most widely spoken language in Israel today.
23 paź 2024 · A modern form of Hebrew developed as a spoken language during the Jewish national revival of the 19th and 20th centuries. Early in the 1st millennium bce, documents in the Aramaic languages appeared. Isolated inscriptions in Old Aramaic dialects date back to the 9th century bce.
Hebrew is the sacred language of Jewish scripture and prayer and also the language of the modern Jewish state.
The modern Hebrew alphabet was developed from an alphabet known as Proto-Hebrew/Early Aramaic. The Hebrew alphabet is also known as the Hebrew Square Script, the square script, the block script, the Jewish script or Ktav Ashuri ( כְּתָב אַשּׁוּרִי - Assyrian script).
Modern Hebrew draws on all the previous historical layers of the Hebrew language. New meanings are ascribed to ancient words and new words are created in line with patterns and paradigms native to the ancient tongue.
With respect to the historical development of the language, Modern Hebrew follows Biblical Hebrew (12th–2nd c. bce), Post-Biblical Hebrew (2nd c. bce–2nd c. ce), Rabbinic Hebrew (2nd–5th c. ce) and Medieval Hebrew (6th–15th c. ce) as well as the Hebrew of the early modern period (16th–18th c. ce).
