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,[7] 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 | |
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עברית, Ivrit | |
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Pronunciation | [(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit][note 1] |
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[1][2][3] |
Revival | 9.0 million speakers o Modren Hebrew o which 5 million in Israel. (2016)[4] |
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)[5] |
Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in | ![]() |
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 [6] |
Linguasphere | 12-AAB-a |
![Thumb](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Hebrew_alphabet.png/640px-Hebrew_alphabet.png)
Notes
- Sephardi [ʕivˈɾit]; Iraqi [ʕibˈriːθ]; Yemenite [ʕivˈriːθ]; Ashkenazi realisation [iv'ʀis] or [iv'ris] strict pronunciation [ʔiv'ris] or [ʔiv'ʀis]
References
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