cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53948266

https://web.archive.org/web/20111018150223/https://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=241523 :

On October 13, 1881, a short time before moving to Palestine, Eliezer Ben Yehuda held what is thought to be the first modern conversation in Hebrew with two friends at a Paris café. That moment became the impetus for Ben Yehuda’s at times tortuous revival of the language, which for centuries had been relegated solely to the written word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Zionism

https://web.archive.org/web/20111018150223/https://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=241523 :

On October 13, 1881, a short time before moving to Palestine, Eliezer Ben Yehuda held what is thought to be the first modern conversation in Hebrew with two friends at a Paris café. That moment became the impetus for Ben Yehuda’s at times tortuous revival of the language, which for centuries had been relegated solely to the written word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Zionism

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MrMojoFomo on 2026-05-15 19:39:53+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Hebrew is the only successful attempt at a large-scale linguistic revival. After having largely been replaced by other languages between the 2nd and 4th centuries. It was revived as a language beginning in the late 19th century