Well . . . I'm not sure I completely agree with your analysis. I really see the story of Modern Hebrew as starting with "being made up by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, based on Hebrew vocabulary, including affixes, and inspired by Hebrew grammar." After that point, of course, once it escaped his clutches, it started doing all the "language on the loose" things that languages do, which is where you get all those other things.
But I don't think Modern Hebrew ever went through a creole phase, which is why I consider it a conlang. It was created, then taught academically, and only then, after an actual "Official Correct Hebrew" already existed, was it let loose into the world in order to run and skip and play freely the way languages actually do.
Modern Hebrew is the only language I know of which has an actual Academy that has existed as long as the language itself has existed. Of course, those few modern Israelis who are aware that the Academy exists completely ignore it.
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Date: 2012-10-15 11:27 pm (UTC)But I don't think Modern Hebrew ever went through a creole phase, which is why I consider it a conlang. It was created, then taught academically, and only then, after an actual "Official Correct Hebrew" already existed, was it let loose into the world in order to run and skip and play freely the way languages actually do.
Modern Hebrew is the only language I know of which has an actual Academy that has existed as long as the language itself has existed. Of course, those few modern Israelis who are aware that the Academy exists completely ignore it.