Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Stoney Breyer" <stoneyb AT touchwoodcreative.com>]

Respecting Randall Buth's suggestion that loss of the Hebrew names for the 
months reflect outside contact and influence  from strata of power in a 
society, Karl Randolph writes

  Things like this tend not to cross linguistic lines except
  when one language falls out of daily usage. I take this as just one of
  several clues that lead to my conclusion that the daily use of the Hebrew
  language was lost.

Neither English nor German has ever "fallen out of daily usage", yet the 
month names in both are of Latin origin.