ISO 639-3 · hebheb
Afroasiatic family
Hebrew
עברית
Hebrew is a language of the Canaanite branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Israel. Wikidata counts 5.4 m first-language speakers (2019) and 4 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “Northwest Semitic language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
heb- ISO 639-1
he- Glottocode
hebr1246- Family
- Afroasiatic
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 31.00, 35.00
- Wikipedia
- 262 language editions
5.4 mfirst-language speakers
4 msecond-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
6levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Hebrew · עברית |
|---|---|
| Also called | Hebrew language, Ivrit, Iwrit |
| L1 speakers | 5,353,950 (2014) |
| L2 speakers | 3,950,000 (2016) |
| All speakers | 9,303,950 (2019) |
| Written in | Hebrew alphabet |
| Official in | Israel |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Afroasiatic to Hebrew
The branches above Hebrew, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Israel
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalaraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeapcLevantine ArabicAfroasiatic · 44 mamhAmharicAfroasiatic · 25 m1 · NationalajpSouth Levantine ArabicAfroasiatic · 11.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationhyeArmenianIndo-European · 6.7 m1 · NationalyidYiddishIndo-European · 1 mDefinitely endangeredladJudaeo-SpanishIndo-European · 137,0007 · ShiftingjdtJudeo-TatIndo-European · 106,0006b · ThreatenedjgeJudaeo-GeorgianKartvelian · 85,0006a · Vigorous