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Spoken Language and Hebrew proficiency, by Sex in Israel according to the 1948 Census, male: black, female: brown Israel: Day to Day Spoken Language, Among Non-Hebrew Speakers in the Jewish Population (1948) Israeli Immunization Cards. The left one is in Hebrew and French and was printed in 1983.
Hebrew is the most widely spoken language in Israel today. In the Modern Period, from the 19th century onward, the literary Hebrew tradition revived as the spoken language of modern Israel, called variously Israeli Hebrew, Modern Israeli Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, New Hebrew, Israeli Standard Hebrew, Standard Hebrew and so on.
Modern Hebrew (Hebrew: עִבְרִית חֲדָשָׁה [ʔivˈʁit χadaˈʃa] or [ʕivˈrit ħadaˈʃa]), also called Israeli Hebrew or simply Hebrew, is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. Developed as part of the revival of Hebrew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it is the official language of the State of ...
Spoken Language and Hebrew proficiency, by Sex in Israel according to the 1948 Census Israel: Day to Day Spoken Language, Among Non-Hebrew Speakers in the Jewish Population (1948) By the time Israel was established in 1948, 80.9% of Jews who had been born in Palestine spoke Hebrew as their only language in daily life, and another 14.2% of ...
The Russian language is spoken natively by a considerable proportion of the population of Israel, mostly by immigrants who came from the former Soviet Union from 1989 onwards. [1][2][3][4] It is a major foreign language in the country, and is used in many aspects of life. Russian is the third most common native language in Israel after Modern ...
Hebrew and Arabic are the official languages in the country, while English and Russian are the two most widely spoken non-official languages. Yiddish (2%) and French (2%) are also spoken. [64] A certain degree of English is spoken widely, and is the language of choice for many Israeli businesses.
Arabic was an official language of Mandatory Palestine and was retained as an official language when the State of Israel was founded in 1948. In 2018, the Knesset upgraded the status of Hebrew from official to State language of Israel, and gave Arabic a special status in the State by adopting the relevant Basic Law.
In Israel, Arabic is spoken natively by over 20 percent of the Israeli population, predominantly by Arab citizens of Israel, but also by Jews who arrived in Israel from Arab countries. Some refer to the modern Hebrew -influenced Levantine Arabic vernacular as the "Israeli Arabic dialect " or colloquially as Aravrit, a portmanteau of the Hebrew ...