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Name:
Hebrew
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Hebrew (Modern Ashenazic); Hebrew (Modern); Ivrit; Modern Hebrew
Spoken in:
USA, Australia, Germany, Israel, Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, Canada, United Kingdom, Panama
Number of speakers:
4,850,000 in Israel (1998). Population total all countries: 5,316,700
(Ethnologue)
Code:
heb
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
Canaanite (cana)
Child Dialects:
Standard Hebrew; General Israeli; Europeanized Hebrew (heb-sta)
Oriental Hebrew; Arabized Hebrew; Yemenite Hebrew (heb-ori)
Map of Hebrew
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