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Countries

Israel

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Israel

Second Language

Israel

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Poland

Regulated By

Academy of the Hebrew Language

Interesting Facts

The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.

Similar To

Arabic and Aramaic languages

Derived From

Aramaic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 4 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 12 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Hebrew

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

שלום (Shalom)

Thank You

תודה (Toda)

How Are You?

מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)

Good Night

לילה טוב (Laila tov)

Good Evening

ערב טוב (Erev tov)

Good Afternoon

אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)

Good Morning

בוקר טוב (Boker tov)

Please

בבקשה (bevekshah)

Sorry

סליחה! (Slicha)

Bye

להתראות (Lehitraot)

I Love You

אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)

Excuse Me

בבקשה!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Ashkenazi Hebrew

Where They Speak

Israel

How Many People Speak

9,200,000.00

Rank: 38 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Samaritan Hebrew

Where They Speak

Israel, Palestine

How Many People Speak

9,000,000.00

Rank: 38 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Yemenite Hebrew

Where They Speak

Israel

How Many People Speak

9,000,000.00

Rank: 30 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 7 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

9.00 million

Rank: 57 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.11 %

Rank: 56 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

4.40 million

Rank: 68 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

5.60 million

Rank: 49 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)

Alternative Names

Israeli, Ivrit

French Name

hébreu

German Name

Hebräisch

Pronunciation

[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]

Ethnicity

Hebrew-speaking people

History

Origin

1000 BC

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Semitic

Branch

Canaanitic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew

Standard Forms

Modern Hebrew

Language Position

Rank: 21 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Hebrew

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

heb

ISO 639 2/B

heb

ISO 639 3

heb

ISO 639 6

heb

Glottocode

hebr1246

Linguasphere

12-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Hebrew

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Hebrew Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Hebrew Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Hebrew. Hebrew phonology gives Hebrew vowels and Hebrew consonants. There are vowels and consonants in Hebrew language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Hebrew is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Hebrew language is given in detail in this section.

All Hebrew countries

Want to explore all Hebrew countries? About Hebrew language serves you with all Hebrew Speaking Countries. Countries that use Hebrew as official language are called as Hebrew countries.

Countries that use Hebrew as their National Language are: .

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Hebrew as second language are: .

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Learn Hebrew greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Hebrew Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Hebrew language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Hebrew language.Learn Hebrew greetings that can be used in formal situations:

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Good Evening:
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All Hebrew Language Codes

Get to know all Hebrew language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Hebrew Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.