Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics

Abstract Four languages were used in one form or the other in 1st-century Jewish Palestine: Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin. Aramaic was the first language of most of the Palestinian Jews, the so-called ‘Hebrews’. Greek was the first language of the Diaspora Jews and of the Hellenized Jews of Palestine, the so-called ‘Hellenists’. It was also the language of communication between the Roman authorities and the local population. It is not clear whether Hebrew was a spoken vernacular in some parts …

Abstract A great number of texts written on papyri, ostraca and stone prove that two languages, Greek and Egyptian, were used in various ways in Hellenistic Egyptian society. The surviving written evidence illuminates bilingualism, but only sporadically. Some letters show us directly that the letter writer was bilingual in Greek and Egyptian, but additional work is required for the study of possible signs of bilingualism, through personal names, the context formed by archives, and the linguistic features of the texts themselves. The term bilingualism refers to an individual’…

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