23 February 2008
Spoken Israeli Hebrew
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Hebrew is the only language that has died out and then been revived, to become the lingua franca of all the Jews who'd come from elsewhere, to live in British-mandated Palestine after World War 1, and then the spoken native language of the generation growing up in the Jewish community in Palestine in the 1920s and '30s.
Guests
Yaron Matras,
Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester in the UK.
Further Information
Marie Smith Jones, last fluent speaker of the native Alaskan language, Eyak, died 21/1/2008
Presenter
Maria Zijlstra
Producer
Carey Dell
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