Advantages of Vocabulary of European Origin for Learning Modern Hebrew
Journal: The Journal of Social Sciences Research (Vol.4, No. 12)Publication Date: 2018-12-15
Authors : Kazuhito Uni;
Page : 621-624
Keywords : Hebrew; English; Italian; Loanword; Latin.;
Abstract
Latin and Greek are important donor languages to Hebrew, which does not belong to the Indo-European but Semitic language family. The present study conducted a vocabulary survey to examine the advantage of frequently used Modern Hebrew vocabulary of European origin and their English equivalents for learning Modern Hebrew as a foreign language. The Oxford 3000 list was used as the primary reference of high-frequency English words and their Hebrew equivalents. As a result, 186 loanwords of Latin or Greek origin are included in the most frequently used 3,000 Hebrew words and approximately 150 loanwords can be used with a similar pronunciation in English and Italian. Therefore, the present study concluded that knowledge of high-frequency Hebrew vocabulary of Greek or Latin origin could assist speakers of English and Italian in learning Modern Hebrew.
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