2007-11-03 14:11:33 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Israel
No guess please, I am looking for facts. Thanks
2007-11-03 14:16:17 · update #1
Hebrew by at least 200-400 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew#Origins_of_Hebrew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language#History
2007-11-03 14:28:50 · answer #1 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 10⤊ 5⤋
Ancient Hebrew came before Arabic but after Aramaic.
Arabic came before ancient Hebrew but before modern Hebrew.
2007-11-05 12:35:57 · answer #2 · answered by StephenWeinstein 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biblical Hebrew
2007-11-05 08:50:50 · answer #3 · answered by Davey Boy Smith #1 Fan- VACATION 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe both language came at the same time. The speakers of each language used to be unaware of the others' languages. Both are the surviving Semitic languages along with Amharic, Tigrinya, Syriac, Silt'e, Tigre, Neo Aramaic, Sebat Bet Gurage, Maltese, South Arabian languages, Inor, Soddo and Harari.
2007-11-04 05:07:01 · answer #4 · answered by Duke of Tudor 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The world was "created" in Hebrew.... and it was the universal language until the tower of babel. So its definitely first.
There's a phenomenal book based on someone's PhD thesis that documents how languages from all over the world are rooted in Hebrew. Even Chinese, Japanese, African languages, all kinds ... its really cool. Sorry, don't know the name, but it was written like 20 years ago.
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Tamarind - sorry, but you're wrong about them coming from Aramaic. It is a derivative of Hebrew.
2007-11-03 20:35:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Hebrew came first.
2007-11-03 18:51:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
Hebrew- it is written in the Torah and that was written millions of years ago.
2007-11-04 08:06:12 · answer #7 · answered by EFK 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Hebrew came somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 years before, depends on the Hebrew dialect you follow.
2007-11-03 14:46:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 6⤋
According to linguists and anthropologists, Hebrew came first by a few hundred years.
2007-11-03 15:24:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 5⤋
My honest guess is Hebrew. Both are descended from Aramaic - the language of the Bible - that is still spoken in some smaller villages in the mountains of Syria, near Damascus.
2007-11-03 14:48:17 · answer #10 · answered by tamarindwalk 5 · 4⤊ 7⤋
well - do you mean ancient Hebrew or modern Hebrew? Ancient hebrew is one of the oldest languages on earth.
good luck!!!
2007-11-03 15:22:41 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 5⤋