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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;Modern Hebrew&#039;&#039;&#039; (עברית חדשה, &#039;&#039;ʿivrít ḥadašá[h]&#039;&#039;, ivˈʁit χadaˈʃa, &#039;&#039;<a href="/index.php?title=Literal_translation&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Literal translation (page does not exist)">lit</a>.&#039;&#039; &quot;Modern Hebrew&quot; or &quot;New Hebrew&quot;), also known as &#039;&#039;&#039;Israeli Hebre...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Modern Hebrew&#039;&#039;&#039; (עברית חדשה, &#039;&#039;ʿivrít ḥadašá[h]&#039;&#039;, ivˈʁit χadaˈʃa, &#039;&#039;[[Literal translation|lit]].&#039;&#039; &quot;Modern Hebrew&quot; or &quot;New Hebrew&quot;), also known as &#039;&#039;&#039;Israeli Hebrew&#039;&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;&#039;Israeli&#039;&#039;&#039;, and generally referred to by speakers simply as &#039;&#039;&#039;Hebrew&#039;&#039;&#039; (עברית Ivrit), is the standard form of the [[Hebrew language]] spoken today. Spoken in ancient times, [[Hebrew language|Ancient Hebrew]], a member of the [[Canaanite languages|Canaanite]] branch of the [[Semitic languages|Semitic language family]], was supplanted as the [[Jewish]] vernacular by the western [[dialect]] of [[Aramaic]] beginning in the third century BCE, though it continued to be used as a liturgical and literary language. It was [[Revival of the Hebrew language|revived as a spoken language]] in the 19th and 20th centuries and is the official language of [[Israel]]. Of the Canaanite languages, Modern Hebrew is the only language spoken today.<br /> <br /> Modern Hebrew is spoken by about nine million people, counting native, fluent and non-fluent speakers. Most speakers are [[Israelis|citizens of Israel]]: about five million are Israelis who speak Modern Hebrew as their native language, 1.5 million are immigrants to Israel, 1.5 million are [[Arab citizens of Israel]], whose first language is usually Arabic and half a million are [[Yerida|expatriate Israelis]] or diaspora Jews living outside Israel.<br /> <br /> The organization that officially directs the development of the Modern Hebrew language, under the law of the State of Israel, is the [[Academy of the Hebrew Language]].<br /> <br /> {{Donate}}</div>

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