... Or, if we compare this to Hebrew, we could go much further back, to the early 19th century attempts to write modern literature in it. This would possibly be a closer comparison.
בתאריך שבת, 1 בספט׳ 2018, 08:23, מאת Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]>: > Not quite on topic, but sorry, I had to: > > בתאריך שבת, 1 בספט׳ 2018, 07:52, מאת Phake Nick <[email protected]>: > >> At 2018-7-17 Tue 01:59, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hoi, >>> Prusian is imho not eligible, there are no native speakers. There is >>> little reason to believe that it is in a category similar to Ancient Greek. >>> >>> For the rest it is fine. >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >> For languages under revitalization efforts, if you look at example from >> revival of Hebrew, people start using Hebrew for daily conversation since >> year 1880s, and Tel Aviv established in 1909 as a Hebrew-speaking city, >> however it's only during Mandate period which start after WWI that people >> start teaching children with Hebrew as their mother language and thus to >> let them become a native speaker of the language >> > > Nope, if you talk about when did people START it, then it's more like > 1882: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Avi > > It took a few years for more native speakers to be born. I need to check > how many exactly, but I'm pretty sure it did not take forty years. > > The first Hebrew kindergarten started in 1913 or so by David Yellin > (accounts vary; and note that the whole concept of a kindergarten was only > about 100 years old then). > > The time of the British mandate (1920s) is the time of recognition of > Hebrew as an official language, and the establishment of Hebrew higher > education institutions. Thousands of those children had grown up and wanted > to learn engineering and humanities somewhere. Publishing of > (non-religious) Hebrew books and newspapers had been several decades old by > that time. > > Will this happen with Prussian? I don't know. I find Michael's attitude to > this pretty balanced. >
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