שלום!
say it: “shah-LOHM”
Hebrew
in its own words: עברית
- Speakers
- 9 million (estimate)
- Family
- Afroasiatic – Semitic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, State of Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic
- Script
- Hebrew
- Official language
- Israel
Fun fact
For almost two thousand years Hebrew was nobody's first language, only a language of liturgy and literature. Its revival in the 19th and 20th centuries is a unique successful language revitalization.