Hebrew 

(‫ ִעב ְִרית‬,  Ivrit (help·info), IPA: [ivˈʁit] or [ʕivˈɾit]) is a Northwest Semitic language of

the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is regarded as the language of
the Israelites, Judeans and their ancestors. It is the only Canaanite language still spoken and the
only truly successful example of a revived dead language, and one of only two Northwest Semitic
languages still spoken, the other being Aramaic.[11][12]
The language was not referred to by the name Hebrew in the Hebrew Bible, but as Yehudit ("the
language of Judah") or səpaṯ Kəna'an ("the language of Canaan").[2][note 1] Mishnah Gitin 9:8 refers to
the language as Ivrit meaning Hebrew; however, Mishnah Megillah refers to the Hebrew language
as Ashurit, meaning Assyrian, which is derived from the name of the alphabet used, in contrast
to Ivrit meaning the paleo-Hebrew alphabet.[13] The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date to
the 10th century BCE.[14]
Hebrew ceased to be an everyday spoken language sometime between 200 and 400 CE, declining
in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt.[2][15][note 2] Aramaic and, to a lesser extent, Greek were already
in use as international languages, especially among elites and immigrants.[17] Hebrew survived into
the medieval period as the language of Jewish liturgy, rabbinic literature, intra-Jewish commerce
and poetry. W