edition of Ethnologue lists 36 languages and dialects spoken through Israel. According to a 2011 Government Social Survey of Israelis over 20 years of age...

(or sole) language. Before 1948, the official languages of the British mandate of Palestine were English, Hebrew, and Arabic. After Israel's establishment...

The Russian language is spoken natively by a considerable proportion of the population of Israel, mostly by immigrants who came from the former Soviet...

Canaanite group of languages. Canaanite languages are a branch of the Northwest Semitic family of languages. Hebrew was the spoken language in the Iron Age...

Deaf community of Israel. Some other sign languages are also used in Israel, among them Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language. The history of ISL goes back to...

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the...

The war of the languages (Hebrew: מלחמת השפות; Milhemet HaSafot) was a heated debate in the land of Israel over the language of instruction in the region's...

known as Israeli Hebrew or simply Hebrew, is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. It is the only surviving Canaanite language, as well...

became one of three official languages and after the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948, one of two official languages of Israel, along with...

dialects of ancient Hebrew and influenced by Yiddish, Arabic, Slavic languages, and German. Hebrew and Arabic are currently official languages of Israel. Government...

The State of Israel is represented in the Russian Federation through an embassy in Moscow and a consulate-general in Saint Petersburg. Russia is represented...

Empire Jewish languages Yevanic at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996). Spolsky, B., S. B. Benor. 2006. "Jewish Languages." In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics...

Northwestern Iranian languages, the Zaza–Gorani languages, are also spoken by several million ethnic Kurds. The classification of Laki as a dialect of Southern Kurdish...

Arab citizens of Israel. They maintain Arabic language and culture as integral parts of their identity, and Arabic is their primary language. In 2019, there...

in school and is spoken by the majority of the population as a second language. Other languages spoken in Israel include Russian, Yiddish, Spanish, Ladino...

an Israeli magazine in Judaeo-Spanish published 2–3 times a year Yiddish, language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews Judeo-Iranian languages, languages...

The Canaanite languages, sometimes referred to as Canaanite dialects, are one of four subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages. The others are Aramaic...

history of Israel covers an area of the Southern Levant also known as Canaan, Palestine, or the Holy Land, which is the geographical location of the modern...

hypothesis of a relationship, which also tends to link the Caucasian languages with other non-Indo-European and non-Semitic languages of the Near East of ancient...

Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is...

survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel". In Zeshan, Ulrike; de Vos, Connie (eds.). Sign Languages in Village...

as two separate languages within the Central (Hindustani) group of languages. The Dom and the Rom are most likely to be descendants of two different migration...

'Jewish languages'. Shohat cites the first issue of the Israeli journal Pe'amim, which featured a "Scholars' Forum" (בימת חוקרים) on "The Jewish Languages –...

Constitution of 1979. – Article: 16 Official or national languages, 1979, retrieved 25 July 2018 "Full text of Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish...

Academy of the Arabic Language is an institute for the study and research of the Arabic language in Israel. The Academy of the Arabic Language, headquartered...

Medieval Spanish spoken by Sephardic Jews Judeo-Iranian languages – Jewish variants of Iranian languages ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, romanized as yidish or idish...

Elections in Israel Emblem of Israel Flag of Israel Foreign relations of Israel Geography of Israel Haifa Hatikvah Health care in Israel Hebrew language Hebrew...

The Israeli Deaf community is linguistically diverse, with Israeli Sign Language (ISL) being the most widely used, alongside minority sign languages such...

speakers (1994) Judeo-Aramaic languages, spoken by Jewish communities in Israel Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Barzani [bjf] (Israel), extinct Trans-Zab Jewish...

peoples. They spoke an archaic form of the Hebrew language, which was a regional variety of the Canaanite languages, and worshipped Yahweh. In the Iron...