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1. • • Today, of the 9.5 million people in Israel aged 20 and over, almost everyone uses Hebrew, and 55 percent speak it as their native language. Around the world there are around 15 million Hebrew speakers; in the U.S., there are 195,375.
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     Hebrew wasn’t spoken for 2,000 years. Here’s how it was revived.

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_languages_by_totalList of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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   The World Factbook, produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), estimates the ten most spoken languages (L1 + L2) in 2022 as follows: [6] Most spoken languages, CIA, 2022 [ 6 ] Language

   Language	Family	Branch	First-language (l1) Speakers
   English (excl. creole languages)	Indo-European	Germanic	380 million
   Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	941 million
   Hindi (excl. Urdu)	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	345 million
   Spanish (excl. creole languages)	Indo-European	Romance	486 million

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3. www.babbel.com › how-many-people-speak-hebrewHow Many People Speak Hebrew, And Where Is It Spoken?

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   Feb 21, 2019 · How Many People Speak Hebrew? In Israel, where Hebrew was made the official language in 1922, Hebrew is spoken by pretty much all (roughly) 8.3 million residents. Only half of those who speak it in Israel use it as their first language, but it is widespread throughout the country.

4. www.statista.com › statistics › 266808The most spoken languages worldwide 2023 | Statista

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   Jul 4, 2024 · In 2023, there were around 1.5 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.1 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time...

5. www.cia.gov › the-world-factbook › aboutLanguages - 2022 World Factbook Archive

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   note 2: all told, there are estimated to be just over 7,151 languages spoken in the world (2022); approximately 80% of these languages are spoken by less than 100,000 people; about 150 languages are spoken by fewer than 10 people; communities that are isolated from each other in mountainous regions often develop multiple languages; Papua New ...

6. www.tabletmag.com › sections › beliefHow Hebrew Kept Us a People - Tablet Magazine

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   May 19, 2023 · For anyone who hasn’t noticed, and most haven’t, there are more speakers of Hebrew in the world today than at any other time in human history: With a population of 10 million...

7. www.cia.gov › the-world-factbook › fieldLanguages - The World Factbook

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   The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information. note 1: percentages sum to more than 100% because many people are multilingual. note 2: Uzbeki, Turkmani, Pashaie, Nuristani, Balochi, and Pamiri are the third official languages in areas where the majority speaks them.

8. www.britannica.com › topic › languages-by-number-ofLanguages by number of native speakers | List, Top, & Most ...

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   The world’s 8 billion inhabitants speak thousands of languages, but most of them are spoken by small populations. About 5 billion people are native speakers of just 25 languages. Below is a list of the 25 languages with the highest number of native speakers, according to data from the Ethnologue.