Fred, very few serious people, including the sages of the Talmud or the Medieval Jewish writers, have claimed that Hebrew was LINGUISTICALLY unique. On the contrary, they routinely cited parallels in related languages. Hebrew's status as a "holy tongue" is based on the belief that God chose to reveal his word in that language, perhaps even to create the world in it. But that belief is beyond the purview of this list.***
Yigal Levin
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