Hebrew
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An Introduction to the Language
History
The revival of Hebrew as a native language was begun by the efforts of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who joined the Jewish National Movement, and emigrated to Palestine. There he became motivated to turn what was at that point a liturgical language into an everyday spoken language. It was not until 1922 however that Hebrew was really recognized as a language internationally. Since the creation of Israel following WWII, Hebrew has gained an increasing profile amongst the worlds languages.
Family
Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- Canaanite
- Hebrew
- Canaanite
Spoken In
Hebrew is an official language only in Israel, where it has approximately 5,000,000 speakers. There are also about 200,000 native speakers in the United States, and other small communities around the world.
