Abstract
At the end of the first decade of the new millennium, Modern Hebrew is a century-old language that still carries with it the traces of its 4,000-year-old past in its lexicon, morpho-syntax and orthographic system. Chapter 4 introduces the historical origins of Hebrew from Biblical and Mishnaic times to modern times, when Hebrew became the only common means of spoken and written communication among Jewish Israelis, including the demographic changes in Modern Israel. The chapter anchors the sources of Hebrew spelling errors in the discrepancy between Modern Hebrew phonology and its classical ancestry. It sets the stage to showing how the long written history of Hebrew has left its mark in the form of a chasm between current spoken and written usage.
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Ravid, D.D. (2012). Historical and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Hebrew. In: Spelling Morphology. Literacy Studies, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0588-8_5
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