Medieval Hebrew

Medieval Hebrew
Medieval Hebrew
עִבְרִית Ivrit
	Excerpt from 13th–14th-century manuscript of the Hebrew translation of The Guide for the Perplexed
Region	Jewish diaspora
Era	Academic language used from the death of Hebrew as a spoken language in the 4th century until its revival as a spoken language in the 19th century. Developed into Modern Hebrew by the 19th century
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Canaanite Medieval Hebrew; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Biblical Hebrew Mishnaic Hebrew ;
Writing system	Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Medieval Hebrew was a literary and liturgical language that existed between the 4th and 19th century. It was not commonly used as a spoken language, but mainly in written form by rabbis, scholars and poets. Medieval Hebrew had many features that distinguished it from older forms of Hebrew. These affected grammar, syntax, sentence structure, and also included a wide variety of new lexical items, which were either based on older forms or borrowed from other languages, especially Aramaic, Greek and Latin.

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