Hebrew
A language of Israel
| Population | 4,850,000 in Israel (1998). Population total all countries: 5,316,700. |
| Region | Also in Australia, Canada, Germany, Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, Panama, United Kingdom, United States. |
| Alternate names | Ivrit |
| Dialects | Standard Hebrew (General Israeli, Europeanized Hebrew), Oriental Hebrew (Arabized Hebrew, Yemenite Hebrew). Not a direct offspring from Biblical or other varieties of Ancient Hebrew, but an amalgamation of different Hebrew strata plus intrinsic evolution within the living speech. |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Canaanite |
| Language use | Official language. Some who use it as L1 now in Israel learned it as L2 originally. Spoken by all Israelis as L1 or L2. There is a Hebrew Language Academy. |
| Language development | Fully developed. Bible: 1599–1877. |
| Writing system | Hebrew script. |
| Comments | SVO. Jewish. |
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
Academic Publications
CHUNG, Je Soon, author. 2003. Discourse level translation of Hebrew poetry based upon Psalm 73.
SODERBERG, Craig, author. 2010. Review of: A reference grammar of modern Hebrew.
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