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No. Hebrew is in the Semitic language family, and is related to:
- Arabic
- Aramaic
- Amharic
- Tigrinya
- Maltese
- Syriac
- And some extinct languages, such as Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Canaanite.
It has many commonalities with Aramaic (the lingua franca throughout Iran, Iraq, Israel, and Lebanon during ancient times, and the language of Jesus), and to a lesser degree, Arabic.
Modern Hebrew, has gone under some European influence but still is considered completely Semitic.
Not at all. It is Semitic like Arabic, specifically Canaanite like Phoenician or Ugaritic (both extinct and historically spoken in the Palestine, Lebanon region.
Hebrew has borrowed some Indo-European words:
- Biblical Hebrew borrowed some words (very few) from Egyptian, Greek, Babylonian, and Persian.
- Talmudic Hebrew borrowed from Persian and Greek.
- Modern Hebrew has borrowed from English, German, Russian, Latin and even Yiddish.
According renowned linguist Joseph H. Greenburgh, the Hebrew language is an off shoot of the Afro-Asiatic branch of African languages, to be more specific it is a part of the cannitic or Canaanite sub group of the afro asiatic branch of African languages.
Please do not make the error of thinking of afro asiatic languages as being a mixture of African and Asian peoples today, remember the first humans walked out of Africa and took their languages and cultures with them.
If you simply look at a map of the world you will see that the first place they would have traveled to was the bordering Asian continent specifically along the area we call today the Suez Canal which at that time would have been landlocked leading into south west Asia, today known as the Middle East , these africans were the very first people on the continent we call Asia today. Amongst the various African languages and cultures they established was that of the canaanite and the later Hebrew .
No, Hebrew is not an African language. Hebrew is included in a very large language family called Afro-Asiatic, which includes languages from Africa and Asia.
To be more precise, Hebrew is a West Asian language, related to Arabic, Aramaic, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Akkadian, and Old Canaanite, among others.
No, not at all. Hebrew is a Semitic language in the an Afro-Asiatic language family, closely related to Biblical Aramaic.
Modern Semitic languages related to Hebrew include:
- Arabic
- Aramaic
- Amharic
- Tigrinya
- Tigre
- Maltese
- Assyrian
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