Is it true modern Hebrew was created by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and not a true ancient language?

Answer 1

Not true at all!

Modern Hebrew was not created by Ben-Yehuda by any means. Ben Yehuda promoted the usage of the Hebrew language in the new Jewish country and renewed its vocabulary based on Hebrew roots.
Modern Hebrew is nothing like Russian, or German, except for some slang words that came to the everyday speech through Yiddish.

To Eu Citizen:
The given examples are baseless.
"Ani" is a genuine Hebrew word that appears many times in the bible. It has much more to do with its fellow Semitic languages (like the Arabic word: "ana") then it has to do with the Russian "ani".

Answer 2

This isn't even the one I was looking for, but there have been several good discussions on old and modern Hebrew, all available in searching within answers. This is one of them : https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071102184942AAlLzCo

Answer 3

Not true, no. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda is known as the father of modern Hebrew. He was one of the earliest supporters of Zionism, and it due primarily to his initiative that Hebrew was revived as a modern spoken language.

Today's Hebrew is a spoken language that is based upon the written Hebrew taken from old Hebrew texts. It is the only spoken language in the world derived from a written language.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was one of the first Zionists and is credited with the revival of Hebrew as a modern tongue spoken by a renascent Jewish nation.

As early as the 12th Century BCE (14,000 ago) Hebrew developed into an independent language. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew.

I hope I've helped you.

Answer 4

Languages evolve. People talk one language with one dialect. Some of the ones folks transfer and their possess specified dialect emerges. If folks transfer a ways ample with very little touch with the normal dialect, a brand new dialect can emerge that's so special that the two organizations can not appreciate one one other in the event that they come across one one other once more. Sometimes folks converse such a lot with audio system of a further language that a language is born out of fusion of those two languages. For illustration, English. English is basically a Germanic language, the normal variety coming quite often from a dialect of japanese Germany. The Normans, the Celts, and Scandinavians additionally prompted English (quite often the Normans) till it grew to be specified from Old English; at this factor it grew to be Middle English. Modern English now not most effective has all of those impacts, but in addition Latin, Greek, American Indian within the US which has further many many phrases to our vocabulary, but in addition Spanish and Arabic. English is a ultimate illustration of the way languages evolve. Here's an illustration on a better scale: There is a deity in Hinduism whose title is Agni, which in Sanskrit manner fireplace. Sanskrit is an Indo-European language, and for this reason, distantly concerning English. In English now we have the phrase "ignite," which comes from a Latin root, which means that "to rationale to begin burning."

Answer 5

it was not created by ben-yehuda, it was updated by him.
hebrew was not used for daily life over many years and so needed words for things that did not exist in ancient times. ben yehuda, however, used ancient roots to create most of the new words that he came up with.
it's untrue that he used yiddish and slavic words.
he wasnt the only one to introduce new words. more words were introduced by other scholars such as batya makov, bialik etc.
they are still introduced by the academy for the hebrew language.
as to is it a true ancient language... what makes it ancient is the fact that it has been in use since ancient times. i child living today in israel can read a text written 2000 years ago (such as the dead sea scrolls) in its original letters and understand it perfectly.

Answer 6

Yes. He mixed slavic, germanic, semitic and other language types and created a new language. It is not the continuation of ancient hebrew. There is loads of debate amoung hebrew linguists as to what language family Israeli language belongs in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Hebrew#Classification

Answer 7

Not true. As in every language that evolves, he invented new words. Ancient Hebrew, a language close to 5,000 years old, didn't have words like refrigerator or computer, now did it?