HEBREW OF THE III-XIX CC. AS A DORMANT LANGUAGE

Alexandra, Poljan

doi:10.7868/SX0000338-4-1

RAS History & PhilologyВопросы языкознания Voprosy Jazykoznanija

ISSN (Print) 0373-658X

ISSN (Online) 3034-5243

HEBREW OF THE III-XIX CC. AS A "DORMANT LANGUAGE"

PII

S0373-658X0000338-4-1

DOI

10.7868/SX0000338-4-1

Publication type

Article

Status

Published

Authors

Poljan Alexandra

Volume/ Edition

Volume / Issue 5

Pages

56-67

Abstract

The paper at hand focuses on existing definitions of the notion ‘dead language’ and analyzes possibility to apply them to Hebrew when not being a principal vehicle of oral communication. I suggest to introduce a Russian analogue of the term ‘dormant language’ / ‘sleeping language’. Such a language exists in a situation of diglossia (an H-language) and can be defined according to a set of functional characteristics. Besides, the paper proposes to interpret the opposition of ‘dead’ and ‘alive language’ not as a binary equipollent one, but rather as a continuum of language states.

Keywords

language viability, dead language, dormant language, sleeping language, diglossia, Hebrew

Date of publication

10.11.2025

Year of publication

2025

Number of purchasers

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545

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GOST	Alexandra P. HEBREW OF THE III-XIX CC. AS A "DORMANT LANGUAGE" // Voprosy Jazykoznanija. – 2014. – Issue 5 C. 56-67 . DOI: 10.7868/SX0000338-4-1
MLA	Alexandra, Poljan "HEBREW OF THE III-XIX CC. AS A "DORMANT LANGUAGE"." Voprosy Jazykoznanija. 5 (2014).:56-67. DOI: 10.7868/SX0000338-4-1
APA	Alexandra P. (2014). HEBREW OF THE III-XIX CC. AS A "DORMANT LANGUAGE". Voprosy Jazykoznanija. no. 5, pp.56-67 DOI: 10.7868/SX0000338-4-1

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