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		The Academy of the Hebrew Language (האקדמיה ללשון העברית, Ha-Akademiyah la-Lashon ha-Ivrit) is the "Supreme Foundation for the Science of the Hebrew Language", founded by the Israeli Government in 1953.
		Hebrew language periodicals are published by hundreds of different institutions, government bodies, commercial publishers, political parties and foundations.
		The Hebrew language was written in a script composed of 22 consonants (from right to left) with most Hebrew nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs consisting of only three consonants.
	www.lycos.com /info/hebrew-language.html (623 words)

	Hebrew
		Samaritan Hebrew language The Samaritan Hebrew language is a descendant of Samaritan sect.
		Sephardi Hebrew language The Sephardi Hebrew language is a descendant of Arabic.
		Yemenite Hebrew language The Yemenite Hebrew language or Temani Hebrew language is a descendant of Arabic.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/hebrew.html (522 words)

	Study of the Hebrew language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since Hebrew is the original language of the Hebrew Bible (known as the Torah and Tanakh), it is therefore a language that has always been central to Judaism and valued by the Jewish people for over three thousand years, (and later by Christian scholars as well).
		The beginnings of the study of Hebrew are found in the Talmud and Midrash, which have some grammatical notes.
		The Academy of the Hebrew Language (האקדמיה ללשון העברית) in modern Israel is the "Supreme Foundation for the Science of the Hebrew Language" founded by the Israeli Government in 1953.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_study_of_Hebrew (549 words)

	History of the Hebrew language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Hebrew language belongs to Canaanite branch of the so-called Semitic family of Afroasiatic languages.
		Hebrew is currently spoken by a community of about 10 million people, of whom about 5 million live in the State of Israel, and the rest in the various countries of the Jewish diaspora.
		Hebrew was revived as a spoken language by the efforts of a single man, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (אליעזר בן־יהודה) (1858-1922).
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/h/hi/history_of_the_hebrew_language.html (1425 words)

	Hebrew language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world.
		While the term "Hebrew" as a nationality is customarily used to refer to the ancient Israelites, the classical Hebrew language was extremely similar to the Canaanite languages spoken by their neighbors, such as Phoenician; indeed, Moabite and Hebrew are often considered to be two dialects of the same language.
		Sephardi Hebrew language is the basis of Standard Hebrew and not all that different from it, although traditionally it has had a greater range of phonemes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hebrew_language (3843 words)

	Hebrew language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was reborn as a spoken language during the late 19th and 20th century as Modern Hebrew, replacing Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish and other languages of the Jewish diaspora as the spoken language of the majority of the Jewish people living in Israel.
		At the end of the 3rd millennium BC the ancestral languages of Aramaic, Ugaritic and other various Canaanite languages were spoken in the Levant alongside the influential dialects of Ebla and Akkad.
		Hebrew is spoken primarily in Israel, but it is spoken in many areas where there is a large Jewish populations, especially in Australia, Canada, Germany, Panama, United Kingdom, and the United States.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/h/he/hebrew_language.html (4846 words)

	Hebrew
		Hebrew was revived as a spoken language during the late 19th and early 20th century as Modern Hebrew, replacing Arabic, Yiddish, Russian, and a variety of other languages spoken by Jews who emigrated to Israel.
		The revival of Hebrew is intimately associated with the name of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda,who was born in Russia and who came to Palestine, then a province of the Ottoman empire, in 1881 with revival plans for the Hebrew language.
		Hebrew is a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/august/Hebrew.html (1513 words)

	Speaking Up With the Times
		Hebrew was a language of instruction in various European medical schools during the 9th to 16th centuries.
		The Academy was founded as an enactment of the law, becoming the supreme scientific institution for the Hebrew language.
		Based on morphological rules, the Academy decided that since the word is used in the feminine gender, and "hey" marks the feminine gender, the correct spelling is with "hey." The spelling with "alef" is a remnant of the Aramaic source of the word.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=1443 (1991 words)

	Read about Hebrew language at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Hebrew language and learn about Hebrew language here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hebrew was revitalized as a spoken language during the late 19th and early 20th century as
		Moabite and Hebrew are often considered to be two dialects of the same language.
		Academy of Hebrew Language (http://hebrew-academy.huji.ac.il/english.html), the Institute which prescribes standards for modern Hebrew grammar, orthography, transliteration, and punctuation based upon the study of Hebrew's historical development.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Hebrew_language (2708 words)

	Hebrew Translation - Translate Hebrew Language Translator
		Hebrew was also used as a language of communication among Jews from different countries, particularly for the purpose of international trade.
		Hebrew is one of the official languages of Israel.
		Hebrew grammarians usually classify the verb system into 7 basic groups (called the binyanim, plural of binyan), each of which conjugates in a certain way, which is usually apparent in the binyan 's name.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/hebrew.shtml (4682 words)

	History of the Hebrew language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Hebrew language is a language belonging to the North-Central branch of the Semitic family of languages.
		Less ancient samples of Old Hebrew include the tablets found near Lakhish and the famous Shiloah inscription which describe events preceding the final capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian captivity of 586 BC.
		Hebrew was revived as a spoken language by the efforts of a single man, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858-1922).
	usapedia.com /h/history-of-the-hebrew-language.html (1390 words)

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		Hebrew and Yiddish may have come into conflict at the beginning of the twentieth century, but for centuries earlier Yiddish preserved a significant Hebrew-Aramaic vocabulary and it was largely native Yiddish speakers who created Modern Hebrew.
		In response to the initiative of the Ministry of Education, the minister was summoned to an "urgent irregular meeting [of the Academy of the Hebrew Language], to protest against the decision".
		The Hebrew language is a flag and a symbol.
	shakti.trincoll.edu /~mendele/tmr/tmr05007.txt (3086 words)

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		He teaches Hebrew Linguistics at the University of Haifa, and is a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
		Moreover, disconnecting modern Hebrew words from their past would mean disconnecting them from the heart of the religious, cultural and literary legacy stored in the Hebrew language throughout the generations.
		Native speakers of Hebrew are also included in its student population, not because Hebrew is unique in being still in a state of transformation from a language preserved in books into a modern living one, but because every language that serves as a cultural and literary medium is always in the process of being learned.
	kdictionaries.com /kdn/kdn12-3-6.html (1474 words)

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		The Academy for the Hebrew Language is obliged to preserve the development of the Hebrew language in the framework of the Hebrew which has been transmitted down countless generations.
		The Academy could by no means be party to a conversion that might perhaps reflect the accepted pronunciation of one particular period, such as Israeli Hebrew, but would be useless for the Hebrew of a different period, such as the language of the Bible or of the Sages.
		Here we should add this: in scholarly essays on the Hebrew language published in journals in a foreign language it is especially important to use a conversion that allows the reader to reconstruct the Hebrew word with which he or she is unfamiliar.
	www.cs.technion.ac.il /~ornan/maamarim/taatiq-latini/gramm-Latin-Ornan.doc (5601 words)

	Hebrew language information - Search.com
		Hebrew was revitalized during the late 19th and early 20th century as the spoken language of Israel, called New Hebrew and also called Israeli Hebrew or Modern Hebrew.
		Mishnaic Hebrew from the 1st to the 3rd or 4th century CE, corresponding to the Roman Period after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and represented by the bulk of the Mishnah and Tosefta within the Talmud and by the Dead Sea Scrolls, notably the Bar Kokhba Letters and the Copper Scroll.
		Hebrew functioned as the local mother tongue, Aramaic functioned as the international language with the rest of the Mideast, and eventually Greek functioned as another international language with the eastern areas of the Roman Empire.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Hebrew_language (5441 words)

	Hebrew language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Hebrew is a member of the Canaanite group of Semitic languages.
		It was the language of the early Jews, but from 586 BC it started to be replaced by Aramaic as the everyday language of the Jews.
		In the late 19th and early 20th century the Zionist movement brought about the revivial of Hebrew as a widely-used spoken language, and it became the official languge of Israel in 1948.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/hebrew.htm (528 words)

	MIFTAH--Hebrew Language Is Besieged by Imports
		The Hebrew language survived more than 2,000 years of disuse but is now being undermined by imports from its Arab neighbours and the English of its closest ally, the United States.
		Hebrew is particularly vulnerable to foreign imports because it was modernised for daily use only as recently as the 20th century by Lithuanian-born Zionist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.
		Arabic was always going to feature heavily in the new Hebrew as it remains the dominant language in the Middle East and the two languages share the same roots.
	www.miftah.org /Display.cfm?DocId=6420&CategoryId=5 (587 words)

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		He graduated from the Hebrew (Shazar) College in Buenos Aires, immigrated to Israel in 1963, and studied Bible and Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
		The idea was conceived in the course of my work in the Historical Dictionary Project of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, and was made public in 1985 at the Hebrew University, to an audience of linguists, in a programmatic lecture where I dwelled upon the qualities needed from a practical dictionary.
		Representation of the verb in the present tense form is based on the cognizance that the present participle in Hebrew fulfills a double function, of a noun (as a substantive, an adjective or an adverb) and of a verb.
	kdictionaries.com /kdn/kdn12-3-2.html (2643 words)

	Hebrew language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While many saw his work as fanciful or even blasphemous, many soon understood the need for a common language amongst Jews of pre-state Israel who at the turn of the previous century were arriving in large numbers from diverse countries with many different languages.
		For this reason, over half the population pronounces ר as, (a uvular trill, as in German and Yiddish) or as (a uvular fricative, as in French), rather than as /r/, an apical trill, as in Spanish.
		See also Romanization of Hebrew The Hebrew language is normally written in the Hebrew alphabet.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Hebrew-language.htm (2839 words)

	Jewish Language Research Website: Hebrew
		Until then the use of Hebrew had been restricted mainly to religious spheres, but it was expanded to non-religious areas such as secular literature, etc., laying the foundation for the functioning of Hebrew as a spoken language later.
		Yeivin, I. Jerusalem: The Academy of the Hebrew Language.
		Jerusalem: Department of the Hebrew Language, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
	www.jewish-languages.org /hebrew.html (1216 words)

	Archeology - Ancient Spell
		In 2002 one of the Egyptologists e-mailed the undeciphered part of the inscription to Richard Steiner, a professor of Semitic languages at Yeshiva University in New York.
		While Egyptians considered their culture and religion superior to that of their neighbors to the north, they were willing to do anything to protect the mummies of their kings from the poisonous snakes.
		The Semitic language of these texts that have now been deciphered was a very archaic form of the languages later known as Phoenician and Hebrew, Steiner said.
	www.ancient-hebrew.org /21_spell.html (465 words)

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		The grammar committee of the Academy for the Hebrew Language has decided to approve a government request to amend the English-language spelling on Israeli road signs, without maintaining accepted rules of transliteration.
		But it would seem that the Academy for the Hebrew Language, which tries to protect the language, has caved in all of a sudden to "demands" to coordinate with the rules of the English language.
		Vasals' language must adapt to that of the landlord – if we pass this humiliating decision to pass over the merits of the Hebrew language, it will be a mistake that will take many years to correct.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3269016,00.html (541 words)

	Machers Directory: Jewish: Hebrew - Learning, Information and Resources
		Modern Hebrew) and Mandarin - A paper by Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Cambridge) on the camouflaged influence of Modern English (mainly American) on 'Modern Hebrew' and Mandarin Chinese within the broader context of linguistic and cultural globalization.
		Hebrew Alphabet - Illustrates the letters and vowel points of the Aleph-Bet, along with their names and numerical values.
		Hebrew Self-Study - Self-Study group using J. Weingreen's Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew for beginners who want to be able to read from the Chumash and siddur.
	www.machers.com /directory/Hebrew/index.html (1603 words)

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		One of Zionism's greatest accomplishments was its success in making Hebrew the official language of the yishuv, the pre-state Jewish community in Palestine, allowing the new pioneer society to establish a common core and common assets for its members.
		Hebrew was a language of ritual; it also served as a means of communication among Jews of different ethnicities, who had no other common language.
		The struggle between the Hebrew Language Committee (an early incarnation of the Academy of the Hebrew Language), with its purist desire to preserve the "high," "beautiful" language, and the onslaught of everyday life was a central dynamic in the development and crystallization of Hebrew, a dynamic that we can still witness to this very day.
	gottorah.bloghorn.com /14 (2460 words)

	Amazon.com: A History of the Hebrew Language: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A History of the Hebrew Language is a comprehensive description of Hebrew from its Semitic origins and the earliest settlement of the Israelite tribes in Canaan to the present day.
		Professor Sáenz-Badillos sets Hebrew in the context of the Northwest Semitic languages and examines the origins of Hebrew and its earliest manifestations in ancient Biblical poetry, inscriptions, and prose written before the Babylonian exile.
		Hebrew is a Semitic dialect or language which developed in the northwestern part of the Near East between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea during the latter half of the second millennium BCE.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521556341?v=glance (1350 words)

	Hebrew language is besieged by imports \| International \| The Observer
		The Hebrew language survived more than 2,000 years of disuse but is now being undermined by imports from its Arab neighbours and the English of its closest ally, the United States.
		Hebrew is particularly vulnerable to foreign imports because it was modernised for daily use only as recently as the 20th century by Lithuanian-born Zionist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.
		Arabic was always going to feature heavily in the new Hebrew as it remains the dominant language in the Middle East and the two languages share the same roots.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,6903,1396499,00.html (566 words)

	hebrew adult learning, jewish continuing education
		Moshe Bar Asher, President of Israel’s Academy of the Hebrew Language, and Visiting Professor of Hebrew Language at Hebrew College in Spring 2007, describes the challenges of being the official keeper of Hebrew.
		Bar Asher holds the Chaim Nachman Bialik Chair in Research of the Hebrew Language at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and heads the Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Center for the Study of the History of Hebrew Language.
		He received the Israel Prize for Hebrew Language and Jewish Languages in 1993, the most prestigious language prize awarded by the State of Israel.
	www.hebrewcollege.edu /html/adult_learning_1.htm (354 words)

	WELCOME TO NEW VOICES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Legislated by the Knesset in 1953 to be the “supreme institute for the Hebrew Language,” the Academy prescribes standards for modern Hebrew vocabulary, grammar, and spelling based upon Hebrew’s historical development.
		Though the Academy is involved in other activities as well—its flagship project is the compilation of a historical dictionary that lists every Hebrew word and its morphological development—its institutional battle against English’s influence on Hebrew is what causes most critics of the Academy to roll their eyes.
		The Academy also invites the public, as they say on their website, “To participate in the realization of the dream of renewing the Hebrew language,” by contacting the scientific secretariat with suggestions for new words—just like Ben and Jerry’s open call for new flavor suggestions.
	www.newvoices.org /cgi-bin/articlepage.cgi?id=702 (1826 words)

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