Timeline for Can Modern Hebrew be considered an Indo-European language?
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| Mar 13, 2021 at 19:38 | comment | added | vectory | On this account, English is not Germanic either except for historic models; the few bits of the eroded syntax and morphosyntax simply borrowed from a substrate, and learned Old English. How about that? It's quite derisive, poor answer. | |
| Sep 24, 2012 at 13:42 | history | edited | kaleissin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 3, 2011 at 13:14 | comment | added | Gaston Ümlaut | I think that (as hippietrail hints) there is a valid argument to say that Modern Hebrew is a mixed language. 'Mixed language' is a technical term for a (rare) language that originates out of a combination of elements from two different parent languages. The notion of mixed languages is still somewhat controversial. | |
| Sep 16, 2011 at 10:32 | comment | added | hippietrail | I think the argument is that Hebrew ceased to evolve naturally and that later a new language called Hebrew was artificially created intending to be the same language but that as it turned out in practice instead a new language was born of two parents instead. English never spent time as a dead/purely religious language in need of revival. It was always spoken by the people but had no status in comparison to Norman French. | |
| Sep 16, 2011 at 10:18 | history | answered | kaleissin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |