Hebrew
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Portion o the Temple Scrowe , ane o the langest o the Deid Sea Scrowes discovered at Qumran
Pronunciation	[(?)iv??it] - [(?)iv??it] [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 ??????? ????? ?????? ( HaAkademia LaLashon Ha?Ivrit )
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 , Ebrew or Ebreu ( ????????? , 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.

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1. ↑ Sephardi [?iv??it] ; Iraqi [?ib?riːθ] ; Yemenite [?iv?riːθ] ; Ashkenazi realisation [iv'?is] or [iv'ris] strict pronunciation [?iv'ris] or [?iv'?is]

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