Hebrew

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
עברית‬, Ivrit
Portion o the Temple Scrowe, ane o the langest o the Deid Sea Scrowes discovered at Qumran
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]
Leid faimily	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Northwast Semitic Canaanite Hebrew
Early forms	Biblical Hebrew Mishnaic Hebrew Medieval Hebrew
Staundart forms	Modren Hebrew
Writin seestem	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	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 Hebrew hbo – Clessical Hebrew (leeturgical) smp – Samaritan Hebrew (leeturgical) obm – Moabite (extinct) xdm – Edomite (extinct)
Glottolog	hebr1246[6]
Linguasphere	12-AAB-a
The Hebrew-speakin warld:   regions whaur Hebrew is the leid o the majority (Israel)   regions whaur Hebrew is the leid o a signeeficant minority (Wast Bank an Golan Hichts)
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Hebrew alphabet

Notes

1. Sephardi [ʕivˈɾit]; Iraqi [ʕibˈriːθ]; Yemenite [ʕivˈriːθ]; Ashkenazi realisation [iv'ʀis] or [iv'ris] strict pronunciation [ʔiv'ris] or [ʔiv'ʀis]