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Most Judeans switched to Aramaic

In Hezekiah's time, ordinary Judeans didn't speak Aramaic. By the Babylonian and Persian periods, most did, and many had stopped using Hebrew.

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Hebrew survived only because some deliberately revived it and its culture.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 165–166

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