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Originally Posted by DeepThought
I speak Hebrew (that has no relation to other european languages) and English
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Some linguistic remarks about your native language and your country (far beyond the scope of freediving...)
First Hebrew has a connection with one official language of the European Union : Maltese. Maltese is a Semitic language and as such connected with Arabian and Hebrew.
As far as I know, the main communities constituting Israel are :
1. ASHKENAZIM ; "Ashkenaz" means Germany in Hebrew and the vernacular language of Ashkenazim is Yiddish, which is a Middle High German dialect ; Ashkenazim are then Teutonic locutors since they speak a language belonging to the family of Teutonic languages...
2. SEPHARDIM ; "Sepharad" means "Spain" in Hebrew and the vernacular language of Sephardim is "ladino", or "Jewish Spanish" , which is a Spanish dialect once spoken in the whole Mediterranean area...
3. RUSSIAN Jews recently coming in masses from the former Soviet Union, who made Russian the 3rd or 4th language spoken in Israël...
I can guess from your mastering of the English language that you must be an Ashkenaz, aren't you ? Then as such you belong to the family of Teutonic locutors...
A Sepharad would have pleaded for the use of a Latin language like French or Spanish...
