Countries
Israel
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Israel
Russia
Second Language
Israel
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Poland
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Academy of the Hebrew Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Aramaic Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
010
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2221
9
60
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Scripts
Hebrew
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
שלום (Shalom)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
תודה (Toda)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
בבקשה (bevekshah)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
סליחה! (Slicha)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
להתראות (Lehitraot)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
בבקשה!
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Israel
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
9,200,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Samaritan Hebrew
Olonets
Where They Speak
Israel, Palestine
Olonets
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Yemenite Hebrew
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Israel
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
713
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.40 million166.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.60 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Русский
Alternative Names
Israeli, Ivrit
Russki
French Name
hébreu
russe
German Name
Hebräisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Hebrew-speaking people
Russians
Origin
1000 BC
1000 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Slavic
Branch
Canaanitic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Modern Hebrew
Standard Russian
Language Position
237
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hebrew
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
he
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
heb
rus
ISO 639 2/B
heb
rus
ISO 639 3
heb
rus
ISO 639 6
heb
rus
Glottocode
hebr1246
russ1263
Linguasphere
12-AAB-a
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic