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Feb 21, 2019 · Hebrew is the only language that was considered dead and came back to life. But how many people speak Hebrew today, and how has the language changed?
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Ethnologue lists the following languages as having 50 million or more total speakers. [4] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing several varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese.
LanguageFamilyBranchFirst-language (l1) SpeakersEnglish (excl. creole languages)380 millionMandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...941 millionHindi (excl. Urdu)345 millionSpanish (excl. creole languages)486 millionMay 11, 2023 · 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...
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Today, Hebrew is spoken by about 9 million people worldwide. 6.4 million of them are even native speakers, living mainly in Israel, but also in Palestine. Outside of these two countries, however, its use is limited to Jewish communities and synagogues.
About 63 percent of the people in Israel speak native Hebrew, and it’s the country’s official language. About 4 percent of Palestinians also have it as their original tongue, but the country has not designated it as an official speaking preference.
Estimates of worldwide usage include five million speakers in 1998, [ 4 ] and over nine million people in 2013. [ 24 ] After Israel, the United States has the largest Hebrew-speaking population, with approximately 220,000 fluent speakers (see Israeli Americans and Jewish Americans).
Today, more than 9 million people speak Hebrew and, for the majority of them, it’s their native tongue. The history of the Hebrew language is usually divided into four major periods:
