Modern Hebrew phonology was successfully revived through deliberate pedagogical and social engineering
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The retrieved evidence partially touches on the linguistic features and general revival of Modern Hebrew pronunciation, but does not fully establish that it was successfully revived through specific deliberate pedagogical and social engineering.
This brief survey chapter starts by characterizing the phonemic inventory of consonants and vowels in Modern
Hebrew (MH). It then notes departures from earlier stages of the language, such as the full or partial merger of
historical “emphatic” stops with plain stops, the loss of pharyngeal and glottal phonemes (“gutturals’), degemination,
and the loss of active phonological rules, such as vowel lengthening and reduction, which together account for the
much reduced inventory of both consonants and vowels in all present-day usage, including “Mizrahi” and more generally used pronunciations. Selected phonotactic features of MH phonology – syllable structure, CV alternations, consonant clusters, stress, and word length – are touched on. A final section deals with the essentially
conservative Hebrew orthography, as compared with the dynamics of its phonology.
Modern Hebrew phonology
Modern Hebrew has 25 to 27 consonants and 5 vowels, depending on the speaker and the analysis.
Hebrew has been used primarily for liturgical, literary, and scholarly purposes for most of the past two millennia. As a consequence, its pronunciation was strongly influenced by the vernacular of individual Jewish communities. With the revival of Hebrew as a native language, and especially with the establishment of Israel, the pronunciation of the modern language rapidly coalesced.
The two main accents of modern Hebrew are Oriental and Non-Oriental. Oriental Hebrew was chosen as the preferred accent for Israel by the Academy of the Hebrew Language, but has since declined in popularity. The description in this article follows the language as it is pronounced by native Israeli speakers of the younger generations.
## Oriental and non-Oriental accents
According to the Academy of the Hebrew Language, in the 1880s (the time of the beginning of the Zionist movement and the Hebrew revival) there were three groups of Hebrew regional accents: Ashkenazi(Eastern European), Sephardi(Southern European), and Mizrahi(Middle Eastern, Iranian, and North African). Over time fea
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