Question about hebrew language?

1. at the 1800's the Ottoman (Turks) ruled this area, British mandate started after WW1 (~1917). 2. Jews were always in This land, In Hebron, Jerusalem and Tzfat (and more small places like Pekiin...). 3. Jew used Hebrew for pray and study holy scripts, but it was not spoken language since it was used only for religious purpose. 4. most of the Jews has spoke Ladino, after Jews started to come from other countries (mainly Russia, Germany ...) started the problems in which language to speak. at this point Eliezer Ben-Yehuda decided to revive the Hebrew language in order to get a common language for all the people. (When the Technion (Israeli High technical university) established there was a huge fight in which language the studies will be, German was the preferred language by the management, but the students and teachers wanted that Hebrew will be and eventually this language was selected as the official teaching language.

Here are some interesting sources regarding this subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_Hebrew_language http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ben_yehuda.html http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/Languages/Languages_Hebrew_TO/Languages_HebHis_Jacobs/Languages_HebRebirth_Saenz.htm

Thats funny. My family (from Israel, and yes you racists, Jews always lived there throughout history), that I can trace back around15 generations accurately, all spoke Hebrew, since they did not go to Europe or anywhere else to learn Yiddish. That Hebrew was of course a little backward (not much changed in the language in the past 4,000 years) until Ben Yudah turned up and made modern words- for eg, computer, television, etc.

First, your history is wrong. Jews did not settle Transjordan. Second, Hebrew was a language used by the religious non-stop. Just as every people has a language, so the Jews had and have Hebrew. The report of the British Royal Commission in 1913 stated clearly: "The area was underpopulated and remained economically stagnant until the arrival of the first Zionist pioneers in the 1880's, who came to rebuild the Jewish land. The country had remained "The Holy Land" in the religious and historic consciousness of mankind, which associated it with the Bible and the history of the Jewish people. Jewish development of the country also attracted large numbers of other immigrants - both Jewish and Arab. The road leading from Gaza to the north was only a summer track suitable for transport by camels and carts... Houses were all of mud. No windows were anywhere to be seen... The plows used were of wood... The yields were very poor... The sanitary conditions in the village [Yabna] were horrible... Schools did not exist... The rate of infant mortality was very high... The western part, toward the sea, was almost a desert... The villages in this area were few and thinly populated. Many ruins of villages were scattered over the area, as owing to the prevalence of malaria, many villages were deserted by their inhabitants". -

Note: Mandate Palestine included all of what is today Jordan and Israel (plus parts of today's Lebanon and Syria). The area that is now the Kingdom of Jordan was called Transjordan or Cis-jordan. Hebrew was revived as a spoken language in the 19th century. The way it is spoken today in Israel is based on the Oriental accent, noted by its hard "t" sounds and guttural "r's".

I know that some guy named Ben-Yehudah decided that someone had to resurrect the language, so it might as well be him. Since Hebrew was still used for prayer and we have ancient books in Hebrew, he started with that. He put out a Hebrew newspaper. Any word he needed that did not exist because it was not around in biblical times he made up,either using a Hebrew root or taking a word from another language. When he did use a new word, he included the explanation (and I think the English translation) in the paper.

coz jews doesn't has and land to call it ""HOME"" so they used to live all over the world and one time when suddenly they invent the """"ISRAEL"""" thing with the help of the British so they came from all over the world and each one was speaking his own language and that's why you can c that in israel or whatever u call it they speak Russian and polish and Italian and Arabic etc