1305: Hebrew Grammar is Increasingly Analytical Jul 7, 2018

It has been discussed on this blog how some Indo-European languages are becoming less synthetic over time, which is to say that less morphology is used, and this is instead replaced with markers, such as things like modal or auxiliary verbs instead of affixes. This is because, in part, it is thought that Proto-Indo-European was very synthetic, and there's only one way to change therefore. However, this trend, while not ubiquitous, is also present in languages of other language families, such as Modern Hebrew. A notable quality of Hebrew as well is that it tends to resemble Indo-European languages in a way Biblical Hebrew did not, with changes to word-order, but also morphosyntactic features, following this same trend as mentioned before. There are any number of reasons for this, but some have speculated that Modern Hebrew has gained this influence in part from contact with other languages with new learners and creators, as it is a historically new language in many ways.