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Non-creationists commonly classify Hebrew as an Afro-Asiatic language, and suggest that that family has its origins in the 8th millennium BC.<ref name=wordiq>"[http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Hebrew_language Hebrew language]," <http://www.wordiq.com/>, accessed September 24, 2009.</ref> Yet all authorities agree that Hebrew had its origins in the country of Haran, an account consistent with {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=11-12}}. The earliest known work written in Hebrew is the Gezer calendar, written in an old Semitic alphabet very similar to the Phoenician alphabet that formed the basis of the [[Greek]] and [[Latin]] alphabets. The Gezer calendar currently dates to the 10th century BC, or the reigns of Kings [[David]] and [[Solomon]].<ref name=wordiq/>
Non-creationists commonly classify Hebrew as an Afro-Asiatic language, and suggest that that family has its origins in the 8th millennium BC.<ref name=wordiq>"[http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Hebrew_language Hebrew language]," <http://www.wordiq.com/>, accessed September 24, 2009.</ref> Yet all authorities agree that Hebrew had its origins in the country of Haran, an account consistent with {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=11-12}}. The earliest known work written in Hebrew is the Gezer calendar, written in an old Semitic alphabet very similar to the Phoenician alphabet that formed the basis of the [[Greek]] and [[Latin]] alphabets. The Gezer calendar currently dates to the 10th century BC, or the reigns of Kings [[David]] and [[Solomon]].<ref name=wordiq/>
==== Mother Tongue ====
As the language of the Old Testament of the Bible, Hebrew is thought to be the language of God. When God dispersed the people from the Tower of Babel, those who remained in Babylon spoke a corrupted offshoot of Hebrew called Babylonian. Another offshoot headed north of Mesopotamia, speaking what academic linguists call [[Indo-European]], which Greek, Latin, and English are thought to have come from. [[Arabic]] is a further corruption of the Babylonian language and is thus further still from God.
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