Friday, August 1, 1980 5
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
99-Year Language War Is Continuing in Israel
(Continued from Page 1)
reviving the ancient lan-
guage: "Whoever wants
to write something of
wisdom and science, and
especially someone like
myself, who speaks He-
brew at home with his
children about every-
thing in life, feels, every
moment, a lack of words,
without which living
speech cannot take
place."
Because of the limitations
of biblical Hebrew, with its
8,000 words, Ben-Yehuda
and a number of other
scholars went to other
sources — the Hebrew poets
and Aramaic writings, such
as the Talmud — to find
terms that could be adapted
to the realities of the period.
They also began coining
new words on the basis of
the ancient writings. Thus,
they started the process
which has led to the expan-
sion of the Hebrew lan-
guage to its current vocab-
ulary of 80,000 words.
The limitations of the
language and the need to
create new words led to a
lack of consistency, For in-
Doihi—Hospital
sympathy
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mathematics
stance,
teachers in different parts of
Jewish Palestine would
make up different terms for
expressing the same idea.
So students transferring
from one school to another
could not understand their
teachers.
This problem led to the
creation of the Hebrew
Language Board (later
renamed Academy) for
coining new words and
for confirming ones that
had been established.
Among the thousands of
words it has coined or
confirmed are words like
"ramzor," an abbrevia-
tion of the two words
"ramaz or" (signal light),
BEN-YEHUDA
"sofshavua"
or
(weekend). Thus ancient
Hebrew words are used
in a new way to express
today's concepts.
Then there are the
foreign words, which have
been absorbed in to the lan-
guage, (even including the
verb "leflartate," which is
conjugation of the EnglishV
word to flirt) or the word
"puncture." It originally
meant a hole in a bicycle
tire. But it has come to
mean anything that has
gone wrong. The word be-
came so entrenched in the
language that when the
academy coined a new word
for a hole in a tire, "teker,"
the Israeli was able to say,
"I had a puncture, a teker in
my tire."
Hebrew seems to be doing
quite well as the national
language, to judge from the
million Israelis who re-
cently visited the Hebrew
Book Week exhibitions all
over the country.
Prof. Rabin believes that
as Hebrew develops to meet
the realities of the 20th and
21st Centuries, it will
change very rapidly. He
maintains that the only
reason Israelis can under-
stand the Bible more easily
than Englishmen can
understand Chaucer, is that
Hebrew was a dead lan-
guage for 1,700 years and
was revived on the basis of
the ancient writings.
(Editor's note: Roy
Janes is the national staff
coach for the American
Youth Soccer Organiza-
tion and head coach of
the American Soccer
League's California Sun-
shine Youth Team.)
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