MARV
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"Year of the Hebrew
Language." The language is
still not taken for granted by
any means. The miracle is
still appreciated.
Hebrew is an interesting
language to learn. It is not
especially difficult; it has a
nearly phonetic spelling and
quite logical grammar. In
English we have "word
families" which are formed by
adding suffixes and prefixes.
In Hebrew there is a system
of three letter "roots" from
which the whole family of
meanings is derived. An ex-
ample is the root of the three
letters: aleph/kaf/lamed.
From this root you get: to eat,
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to be eaten, to devour/to con-
sume, to feed/nourish, to be
digested, dish (of food), food,
digestion/consumption, eat-
ing, edibility. It usually sur-
O. prises English speakers to
learn that Hebrew is written
without any vowels. Only in
the very first primers or
literature and newspapers for
new immigrants are the
vowels indicated through a
system of dots and dashes
written mainly below the
consonants.
William Chomsky, father of
the well-known linguist,
Noam Chomsky, wrote a book
called Hebrew the Eternal
Language (1957). He posited
the theory that originally
Hebrew roots were two letters
and later the third letter was
added to enable further
specificity.
Another interesting point is
that. so many words in
Hebrew are onomatopaeic;
0. they sound like their mean-
ings.
The miracle is still continu-
ing. Archaelogy is a national
hobby and what a feeling
there is when you can read
the writing on some ancient
O. stone. The Dead Sea Scrolls,
written about 2000 years ago,
0— are in Aramaic, a later form
of Hebrew.

When Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
set out for Eretz Israel in
1881, he went first to Vienna
where he was joined by his
childhood acquaintance,
Deborah Jonas, whom he

married in Cairo on the way.
In Ocober 1881, when they
landed in the port of Jaffa he
informed his new wife that
they would henceforth speak
only Hebrew. When their son,
Itamar, was born, Ben-Yehuda
insisted that no one come in
to help his wife with the
housework for fear that the
boy would hear a word spoken
in a language other than
Hebrew. Eliezer wanted his
son to be the first modern
child with Hebrew as his
mother tongue, and he was.

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