![]() ![]() Hebrew is written using the Hebrew script. When the state of Israel was founded, this modern version was immediately adopted as an official language. The spoken revival is often attributed to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who wanted Hebrew to be the primary Jewish language in secular as well as religious contexts. ![]() Modern Hebrew was developed in the 19 th and 20 th centuries CE as a revival of what was then an unspoken language. Hebrew was later displaced as a vernacular language, mainly by Aramaic. It belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, along with languages such as Arabic and Amharic. Hebrew is spoken by some 5 million people mainly in Israel.Ĭlassical Hebrew was spoken between the 11 th and 6 th centuries BCE in various forms and was used to write the Hebrew Bible, which is the basis of the Christian Old Testament. Hebrew (עברית) is the official language of Israel and the liturgical language of Judaism.
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