The Zionists who revived Hebrew were not native speakers; most were native speakers of Yiddish, Russian, or other diaspora languages. This raises the question of whether adopting a Semitic language makes one a Semite in the same way as someone with a continuous heritage. https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1915822057780027530/photo/1

Hebrew, while preserved in religious contexts, was not a mother tongue for any community by the 19th century, making it "almost as dead" as Akkadian and Aramaic in terms of everyday use. https://x.com/R34lB0rg/status/1915822308918480951/photo/1