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Lingon tribe12/29/2023 ![]() To sufficiently answer this question, we need to understand which nations and tribes lived in Cnaan at that period of time and what languages were spoken by those nations. If we follow historical evidence, we can assume that Abraham spoke Babylonian and that it was the language he brought with him to Cnaan.īut what was the language spoken in Cnaan? Was it also Babylonian? Or was it Egyptian? Or was it a combination of the two? The historical evidence, however, contradicts this assumption, as there was no evidence of these languages before 1200 BC (500 years after Abraham’s death). The Jewish tradition claims that Hebrew was Abraham’s “holy language” and that he spoke Aramaic as his everyday language. We can, therefore, assume that Abraham was exposed to the Egyptian language while knowing the Babylonian language as a child in Babylon. The land of Cnaan bordered with these two gigantic cultures and therefore was a center of commerce which attracted many nations and tribes to migrate to the area. Two of the most central cultures in that area at the time were the Babylonian (Sumeric and Akkadic) and ancient Egyptian cultures. In order for me to answer this question, I will first need to give you a brief historical overviewof the time. In this article, I plan to explain the question “Which language did Abraham speak as a child?” and “Which language did he speak with the nations who lived in Cnaan at that time?”. I am referring to none else than Abraham, the father of the Jews (or by his original name, Avram).According to Jewish text (Genesis, 12:1), after Abraham’s marriage, God commands him to: “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you”. One of the most significant characters of the Israelites’ history had been born in a place called “Ur of the Chaldees”. ![]() The year was 1812 BC, although according to some sources, it might have been even 200 years earlier. In order to teach you a bit more about the history of the Semitic languages, I would like to take you back in time to an ancient period in which the Hebrew nation began its first steps. Semitic Languages – The Unborn Hebrew as a Milestone
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