| Hebrew (534 words) |
 | The language has also been calledthe speech of Canaan, and Judean, after the kingdom of Judah.Ancient Hebrew, the language of the Bible, was succeeded by anintermediary form, Mishnaic Hebrew, about the 3rd century BC.Modern Hebrew, the only vernacular tongue based on an ancientwritten form, was developed in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
| The language in whichmost of the Old Testament was written dates, as a living language,from the 12th to the 2nd century BC, at the latest. |
| Hebrew was preserved, however,as the language of ritual and sacred writing and through the centurieshas undergone periodic literary revivals. |
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