Hebrew: Semitic leid
Hebrew, Ebrew or Ebreu (עִבְרִית, Ivrit), is a Semitic leid o the Afro-Asiatic leid faimlie.
Modren Hebrew is spoken bi mair nor 7 million fowk in Israel an Classical Hebrew uised for prayer in Jewish commontis aroond the warld. It is the offeecial leid o Israel. Hebrew wis extinct as a spoken leid in the 2t century, but survived as a liturgical leid, an wis cowered in the 1880s. Som leids integrate Hebrew wirds, as Yiddish an Spainish assimilatit-Jews leids.
| Hebrew | |
|---|---|
| עברית, Ivrit | |
 Portion o the Temple Scrowe, ane o the langest o the Deid Sea Scrowes discovered at Qumran | |
| Pronunciation | [(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit] |
| Native tae | Israel |
| Region | Laund o Israel |
| Ethnicity | Israelites; Jews & Samaritans |
| Extinct | Auncient Hebrew extinct bi 586 CE, survivin as a leeturgical leid for Judaism |
| Revival | 9.0 million speakers o Modren Hebrew o which 5 million in Israel. (2016) |
Afro-Asiatic
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Early forms | Biblical Hebrew
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Staundart forms | |
| Hebrew alphabet Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (Archaic Biblical Hebrew) Imperial Aramaic script (Late Biblical Hebrew) | |
Signed forms | Signed Hebrew (oral Hebrew accompanied bi sign) |
| Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in |  Israel (as Modren Hebrew) |
| Regulatit bi | Academy o the Hebrew Leid האקדמיה ללשון העברית (HaAkademia LaLashon HaʿIvrit) |
| Leid codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | he |
| ISO 639-2 | heb |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:heb – Modren Hebrewhbo – Clessical Hebrew (leeturgical)smp – Samaritan Hebrew (leeturgical)obm – Moabite (extinct)xdm – Edomite (extinct) |
| Glottolog | hebr1246 |
| Linguasphere | 12-AAB-a |
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Notes
References
| Wiki Commons haes media relatit tae Hebrew language. |
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