My Response to a Lousy vid, Created by Two Ignorants
Who claimed that "Hebrew probably ceased to be a spoken Language during Roman times, on the first century or so"...
In fact, as a daily spoken Language, Hebrew was dead from the time of the Babylonian exile onwards. The "2nd temple era ('Bàyith Shénì') Hebrew" was only a written Language, NEVER a spoken one. The people spoke Aramaic.
By the 2nd century BCE, Hebrew was practically a foreign tongue, totally unnatural for the Jews, whose sole communication Language, by then, had been Aramaic (well, apart from the high elite, who, of course, spoke predominantly Greek). Hebrew was only a Literary and liturgical Language already then, and had remained so all the way until the second half of the 19th century.
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