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Marce79
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I am searching for Hebrew and Armenian native speakers

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Hebrew and Armenian languages are alike?

Not the alphabet, but only the spoken language.
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Re: I am searching for Hebrew and Armenian native speakers

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no. while Hebrew is a Semitic language, Armenian is an Indo-European language.
Proto-Indo-European was the probable origin of Armenian. it was probably spoken in the southern coast of the Black Sea (see here: http://www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar/images/mapa1.jpg). the agricultural revolution supplied the food which would encourage the Proto-Indo-Europeans to create towns and cities, from which they would migrate to many regions of Europe and Asia, about 6000 years ago. from these migrations, Proto-Indo-European would divide in three main sub-branches; from one of these sub-branches (Greek-Armenian-Indo-Iranian, the first branch that separated from Proto-Indo-European), Armenian would be derived. Armenian would have arrived to the region known as Armenia in the seventh century AD. it is currently considered an isolated branch of the Indo-European family. you can say that it has familiarity with Greek (but we are not sure).
here's what Wikipedia says about Hebrew:
"As a language, Hebrew belongs to the Canaanite group of languages. Hebrew (Israel) and Moabite (Jordan) are Southern Canaanite while Phoenician (Lebanon) is Northern Canaanite. Canaanite is closely related to Aramaic and to a lesser extent South-Central Arabic. Whereas other Canaanite languages and dialects have become extinct, Hebrew has survived. Hebrew flourished as a spoken language in Canaan from the 10th century BCE until the Babylonian exile.
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In its widest sense, Classical Hebrew means the spoken language of ancient Israel flourishing between the 10th century BCE and the turn of the 4th century CE."
as a Semitic language, Hebrew is closely related to Arabic, Aramaic and Akkadian (these two last languages are not spoken anymore).
we were very brief here; if you want more detailed information, we recommend the following links:
http://www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar/en ... gin1.shtml (origins of the Indo-European languages).
http://www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar/en ... gin6.shtml (history of the Armenian and Hellenic branches of the Indo-European language family).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_language .
or you can ask us and we can try to search for further information.
we hope this helps; we can't give practical examples of differences between the languages, because we don't know Armenian at all.
if we are giving any wrong information, feel free to correct us.
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