Hebrew+language
61LANGUAGE WAR — (Ger. Sprachenkampf), campaign waged during the winter of 1913/14 by the Hebrew Teachers Union in Ereẓ Israel against the hilfsverein der deutschen juden over the issue of the language of instruction in Hilfsverein educational institutions. The… …
62Hebrew Names — Hebrew Names † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Hebrew Names To the philosopher a name is an artificial sign consisting in a certain combination of articulate sounds, whereby a particular class of people are wont to designate one thing and… …
63Hebrew Poetry of the Old Testament — Hebrew Poetry of the Old Testament † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Hebrew Poetry of the Old Testament Since the Bible is divinely inspired, and thus becomes the written word of God, many devout souls are averse from handling it as… …
64Language reform — is a type of language planning by massive change to a language. The usual tools of language reform are simplification and purification. Simplification makes the language easier to use by regularizing vocabulary and grammar. Purification makes the …
65Hebrew Bible — • As compared with the Latin Vulgate, the Hebrew Bible includes the entire Old Testament with the exception of the seven deuterocanonical books, Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, I and II Machabees, and the deuterocanonical portions …
66Hebrew incunabula — are works printed in Hebrew in the fifteenth century. About 101 [or exactly 100 if the Isaiah and Jeremiah with Ḳimḥi (22 Numbers in parentheses refer to the list on pp. 578 and 579.) is merely the first part of the Guadalajara Later Prophets of… …
67Hebrew Roots — (also referred to as Hebraic Roots) is a movement of modern day Christians, including Messianic Jews, returning to the perspectives and beliefs of first century faith. [ [http://www.haydid.org/yeshron1.htm] Moseley, Ron; Yeshua: A Guide to the… …
68Language attrition — is the loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language by individuals; it should be distinguished from language loss within a community (the latter process is referred to as language shift or language death). Language attrition… …
69Hebrew — [hē′broo΄] n. [ME Hebreu < OFr < L Hebraeus < Gr Hebraios < Aram ivray < Heb ivri, lit., ? one from across (the Euphrates River)] 1. any member of a group of Semitic peoples tracing descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Israelite …
70Language contact — occurs when two or more languages or varieties interact. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics. Multilingualism has likely been common throughout much of human history, and today most people in the world are multilingual.[1] …
