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Countries

Countries
Israel

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
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Alphabets
22 4

Phonology

How Many Vowels
0

How Many Consonants
22 12

Scripts
Hebrew

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

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 38

Dialect 2
Samaritan Hebrew

Where They Speak
Israel, Palestine

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00 38

Dialect 3
Yemenite Hebrew

Where They Speak
Israel

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00 30

Total No. Of Dialects
7 7

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
9.00 million 57

Speaking Population
0.11 % 56

Native Speakers
4.40 million 68

Second Language Speakers
5.60 million 49

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
23 21

Signed Forms
Signed Hebrew

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
he

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

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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 0 vowels and 22 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.

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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: Israel.

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: Israel.

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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:

  • Hello: שלום (Shalom)
  • Thank you: תודה (Toda)
  • Good Morning: בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
  • Good Evening: ערב טוב (Erev tov)
  • Good Afternoon: אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)

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.

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