Does Hebrew originate from Old Aramaic, Canaanite, or Egyptian?

Question

I will be looking for what I think to be a best answer. I believe Jacob's (Israel's) family spoke Old Aramaic when entering Egypt around 1875BC; they would not have picked up the Canaanite dialect before that time because of limited contact and Israel's children grew at first in the land of the Arameans, I suppose in Modern day Lebanon and Leigha and Rachel were Aramean. Moses was learned in all of the wisdom of the Egyptians. The Israelites had no chance to learn Canaanite after the exodus in about 1445 BC. In my view Egyptologists have not focused on patterns of correspondence between Biblical Hebrew and Egyptian hieroglyphic writing.

Answer 1

Well heres one answer u will probly throw but here goes. From what I remember Hebrew does not originate from any other language aside from itself. Biblically, the Hebrews were God's people, and so they spoke "God's word." I dont know how your question partakes to religion but the tower of babble explains all. But if your somewhat of an atheist Id suggest reading "Guns, germs, and Warfare." Although it doesnt strictly deal with language and its branches if multinational spread, it may help u understand through its explanation of immigration and migration of early peoples. But for me, "The Tower of Babble" explains that Hebrew spawned from no other lanuage than that of itself. But contradictly, other languages have been changed and created from others, such as Gailic and modern Irish. However, since Hebrew was "Gods language" I dont believe it would have spawned from any less dignified groups. Hebrew has evolved to its contemporary state but it was always itself.

Answer 2

Hebrew, of whatever "flavor" is a Semitic language.

Ancient Egyptian is its own family according to the majority of scholars, while both the Semitic and Egyptian laguages are part of the broader Afro-Asiatic category.

Most reconstructions suggest that Hebrew and other Semitic languages arose from a proto-Semitic language originating in the Arabian peninsula from which the Canaanite, Arab, and Aramaic tribes emerged. The same source is likely for Akkadian, the earliest attestation of a Semitic language dating to the 23rd Century BC.

Religious views of Hebrew as a language is defined as a Canaanite language and followers of Abrahamic religions believe that the Hebrew language came with the varous Hebrew tribes from the Chaldees and was adapted by Abram and Lot after some degree of limited contact with the local Canaanites. The languages then split into the various Hebrew languages including Israelite (Biblical Hebrew of various flavors); Ammonite, Edomite, and Moabite. This would predate the time in Egypt if one accepts that as historical fact.
Prior to the entry into Canaan, there are a variety of views as to the language spoken by Abram and Lot, including Akkadian, which was predominant in the Chaldees or a very early form of Aramaic, among other possibilities.

While there are affinities between ancient Egyptian and Hebrew as one would expect as they are part of the same language family - Afro-Asiatic - they are somewhat limited. The shared characteristics are rather characteristics shared by modern and ancient Afro-Asiatic languages: the use of 3 consonant root of words and the frequency of glottal stops.

And the similarities between Egyptian hieroglyphs - which are distinct from the language - and Biblical Hebrew are even more limited. For one, hieroglyphs are a non-alphabetic writing system. Hebrew as written is alphabetic. While some of the early alphabetic signs may have drawn loosely from hieroglyphics, the later signs show very litle affinity to them. The Hebrew alphabet (and nearly every other alphabet) is related to the earliest known alphabet - the Proto-Canaanite alphabet.


I would also add that since Egyptian was deciphered the main push of early research into ancient Egypt and the rest of the ancient Near East was inspired by a desire to learn more about the history of the Abrahamic religions in general and the Bible in particular, it is only fairly recently in the history of the discipline of Egyptology and other Near Eastern disciplines that scholars have moved away from a heavily Bible-centered focucs. Bearing that in mind, I assure you that generations of linguists, historians, and archaeologists have carefully analyzed the ancient languages and scripts of the broader Near East for affinities between them.

Answer 3

i believe it is the opposite. i think those languages originated from Hebrew.

Answer 4

latin