Words from Hebrew
3 words in Curio passed through Hebrew on their way into English.
About Hebrew
Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic family, a Canaanite language · spoken today
Where
The Land of Israel, spoken by the Israelites → liturgical use in Jewish and Samaritan communities worldwide → revived as the official language of the State of Israel
When
Speakers
9.3M
as of 2019
Speakers, Wikidata figure for 2019
Family path
- Hebrew
- GreekAncient Greek
- English
Where it came from
Hebrew began as a regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, spoken natively by the Israelites. Its earliest written examples, in Paleo-Hebrew, date to the 10th century BCE, and nearly all of the Hebrew Bible is in Biblical Hebrew. It stopped being a regular spoken language between 200 and 400 CE but stayed in use for liturgy and literature, and in the 19th century it was revived as a spoken language, with Eliezer Ben-Yehuda leading the creation of its modern form.
Source: Wikipedia