'Ibri or Hebrew

Hebrew belongs to the Canaanite group of languages. That are a branch of the Northwest Semitic family of languages.

According to Avraham Ben-Yosef Ha Levi Segal (circa 1620–1670), a Polish commentator, Hebrew flourished as a spoken language in the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah during the period from about 1200 to 586 BC.

Records from the second millennium BC include Hebrew texts bearing linguistic similarities to other Canaanite languages such as Phoenician; Punic, and Moabite, which were spoken in the East Mediterranean in ancient times.

Hebrew, within the Afroasiatic language family, was spoken since antiquity as the vernacular of the Jewish people, when it was supplanted by Western Aramaic (a dialect of the Aramaic language), that was the dominant native tongue in the region.

Ibri means in Arabic exactly the same thing as the ethnonym Hebrew, thus, 'Ibris’ (“ones who transit and passed over the river”, or as Nehemiah (mid-5th century BC), a central figure of the Book of Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, denotes, “the descendants of the Biblical Patriarch Eber, son of Shelah, a great-grandson of Noah and an ancestor of Abraham”) is in in other terms a synonym for "Israelites," or "Jews", in the land of Canaan west of the Jordan River in Palestine. The language was also called the Speech of Canaan, and/or Judean, after the Kingdom of Judah.

Arabic and Hebrew both belong to the Semitic language family making them similar languages and the new generations can find them under the tree of the BiDi “Bidirectional“ languages. The structures, pronunciations and words resemble one another.

Noteworthy that, the Hebrews weren’t referred to as Israelites until their return from the Babylonian Exile in the late 6th century BC, from which time on they became known as Jews.

Hebrew went extinct as a colloquial language by late antiquity, but remained a literary language, especially in 'Hispania or Al-Andalus' ("Spain"), as the lingo of commerce between Jews of different native tongues, and as the liturgical language of Judaism, evolving various dialects of literary Medieval Hebrew, until its revival as a spoken language in the late 19th century...

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