

Hebrew in its modern form is spoken by many of the seven million people in Israel. Culturally, it is considered a Jewish language. Hebrew (עִבְרִית, Ivrit, Hebrew pronunciation ) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Variously: yid – Yiddish (generic) ydd – Eastern Yiddish yih – Western Yiddish Recognized as a minority language in Moldova and parts of Russia ( Jewish Autonomous Oblast)Īcademy of the Hebrew Language האקדמיה ללשון העברית(HaAkademia LaLashon Ha‘Ivrit)Įither: heb – Modern Hebrew hbo – Ancient Hebrew ˈjɪdɪʃ/ or /ˈjidɪʃ/ Yiddish pronunciation is Ashkenazic Standard Israeli: -, standard Israeli (Sephardi):, Iraqi:, Yemenite:, Ashkenazi. United States, Israel, Argentina, Brazil, United Kingdom, Russia, Canada, Ukraine, Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Lithuania, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Australia, France and elsewhere. Israel Global (as a liturgical language for Judaism), in West Bank, and Gaza In the United States, about 200,000 people speak Hebrew at home. In Israel, Hebrew is the first language for 5.3 million people and Second Language for 2-2.2 million (2009). Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German YiddishĪbout 10 million.

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