Hebrew language

Northwest Semitic language

Semitic alphabet used for writing Hebrew, Samaritan, Yiddish, Judaeo-Spanish, and other Jewish languages

Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist

academic institution

thumb|The ruins of Beitin, the site of ancient Bethel, during the 19th century

Hebrew essayist and thinker (1856–1927)

standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today mainly in Israel

writing in the Hebrew language

extinct Canaanite dialect

quasi-decimal alphabetic numeral system using the letters of the Hebrew alphabet

language used liturgically by the Samaritans

writing system

Hebrew dialects found in the Talmud

language spoken by Adam in the Garden of Eden

dialect of Hebrew

process of making Hebrew a lingua franca in Israel

thumb|Ulpan in Dimona, 1955

literature written in Israel by Israelis

In historical linguistics, betacism ( , ) is a sound change in which (the voiced bilabial plosive, as in bane) and (the voiced labiodental fricative , as in vane) are confused. The final result of the process can be either /b/ → [v] or /v/ → [b]. Betacism is a fairly common phenomenon; it has taken place in Greek, Hebrew, and several Romance languages.

Israeli journalist and Zionist activist (1882-1943)

literary and liturgical language that temporarily stopped being spoken, from the 2nd century to the 19th century; where the revival of this language in the form of Modern Hebrew has emerged

Hebraism is a lexical item, usage or trait characteristic of the Hebrew language. By successive extension it is often applied to the Jewish people, their faith, national ideology or culture.

the pronunciation system for Biblical and liturgical Hebrew traditionally used by Yemenite Jews

annual week-long event in Israel

transcription of Hebrew into the Latin alphabet

process in which diaspora Jews adopt Hebrew surnames following their migration to Israel

pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew favored by Sephardic Jews

field of academic study

The word Tarbut (תרבות) means "Culture" in Hebrew. The Tarbut movement was a network of secular, Hebrew-language schools in parts of the former Jewish Pale of Settlement, specifically in Poland, Romania and Lithuania. It operated primarily between the world wars. Some schools affiliated with the movement continue to operate today and new ones were established in the United States and other destinations of emigrants from central and eastern Europe.

debate in Ottoman Palestine over the language of instruction in the country's new Jewish schools

pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jewish practice

Begadkefat (also begedkefet) is the phenomenon of lenition affecting the non-emphatic stop consonants of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic when they are preceded by a vowel and not geminated. The name is also given to similar cases of spirantization of post-vocalic plosives in other languages; for instance, in Jerba Berber.

renaming of geographical sites in Palestine/Israel

Israeli author, editor and media personality (1928–2011)

former chief rabbi of HaYeshuv

languages employed in the original writings of the Bible: Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, Koine Greek

keyboard layout used for the Hebrew alphabet

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Israeli government appointed naming comittee

language

Israeli research institution

Translation of the Tanakh into Modern Hebrew

Segolates are words in the Hebrew language whose end is of the form CVCVC, where the penultimate vowel receives syllable stress. Such words are called "segolates" because the final unstressed vowel is typically (but not always) segol.