Hebrew never fully died, but it stopped being anyone's mother tongue for centuries. Schools, committees and settlers, with Eliezer Ben-Yehuda as symbolic leader, made it a daily language.
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Deaf children in Managua, who arrived at new schools in the late 1970s with their own home gestures, merged those systems into a shared language. Later cohorts of children made it more structured.
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English spelling is irregular because sounds changed while spellings stayed fixed, and French, Dutch and Latin influences, printers and no central regulator added inconsistencies.
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