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Rabbinic Hebrew
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Mishnaic Hebrew.
Mishnaic Hebrew (Hebrew: לְשׁוֹן חָזָ״ל, romanized: Ləšôn Ḥāzāl, lit. 'Language of the Sages') is the Hebrew language used in Talmudic texts. Mishnaic Hebrew can be divided into: Mishnaic Hebrew proper (c. 1–200 CE, also called Tannaitic Hebrew, Early Rabbinic Hebrew, or Mishnaic Hebrew I), which was a spoken language; and Amoraic Hebrew (c. 200 to 500 CE, also called Late Rabbinic Hebrew or Mishnaic Hebrew II), which was a literary language only.