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Jewish Languages Quiz

How much do you know about Hebrew, Aramaic and other languages spoken by Jews?

From Hebrew to Aramaic, Ladino, Yiddish, and Judaeo-Arabic — how much do you know about the languages that Jews spoke in the past and continue to speak today?

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Question 1 of 10
Who introduced the system of dots and dashes that indicate how Hebrew words should be pronounced?
Question 2 of 10
Judah Monis, the first full-time Hebrew instructor in American, taught at which university?
Question 3 of 10
What does The National Yiddish Book Center do?
Question 4 of 10
Which of these is NOT a Jewish hybrid language?
Question 5 of 10
How old is the Aramaic language?
Question 6 of 10
Where did Yiddish originate?
Question 7 of 10
When did Hebrew's primacy as a spoken language begin to diminish?
Question 8 of 10
What do the Hebrew letters khaf, mem, nun, pey, and tzade have in common?
Question 9 of 10
Which of these Jewish thinkers berates modern Jews for neglecting the Hebrew language and, in so doing, becoming Jewishly illiterate?
Question 10 of 10
Rabbinic literature refers to Hebrew as lashon ha-kodesh, which means

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