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    Ethnologue lists 36 languages and dialects spoken through Israel. According to a 2011 Government Social Survey of Israelis over 20 years of age, 49% report...
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    removed as an official language, leaving Hebrew and Arabic as co-official languages. The 2018 Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People declared...
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    š¤š¤š¤“š¤‰š¤•ā€Ž) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the...
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    Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the...
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  • 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 1873 in Germany...
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    The Russian language is spoken natively by a considerable proportion of the population of Israel, mostly by immigrants who came from the former Soviet...
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    official language of the State of Israel, and the world's only Canaanite language in use. Coinciding with the creation of the state of Israel, where it...
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  • dialects of ancient Hebrew and influenced by Yiddish, Arabic, Slavic languages, and German. Hebrew and Arabic are currently official languages of Israel. Government...
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    southern Israel from the Gaza Strip. After clearing the militants from its territory, the Israeli military embarked on an extensive aerial bombardment of the...
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    Mandatory Palestine, and after the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948, one of two official languages of Israel, along with Modern Arabic. In July...
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    Yiddish (redirect from Yiddish Language)
    decline in the use of the language. Assimilation following World War II and aliyah (immigration to Israel) further decreased the use of Yiddish among survivors...
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  • Jews in Israel refers to the community of Iranian Jews who immigrated to Ottoman Palestine, Mandatory Palestine, and later the State of Israel. Iranian...
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    The State of Israel is represented in the Russian Federation through an embassy in Moscow and a consulate-general (to be opened)[when?] in Yekaterinburg...
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    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...
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  • Empire Jewish languages Yevanic at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996). Spolsky, B., S. B. Benor. 2006. "Jewish Languages." In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics...
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    history, especially languages of Muslim cultures and countries that were conquered by Muslims. Some of the most influenced languages are Persian, Turkish...
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    European Languages 6. Brussels: European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages, 23ā€“39. Varol-Bornes, Marie-Christine (2008). Manual of Judeo-Spanish: language and...
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    The war of the languages (Hebrew: מלחמ×Ŗ השפו×Ŗ; Milhemet HaSafot) was a heated debate in the land of Israel over the language of instruction in the country's...
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    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...
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    languages (KurdĆ®, Ś©ŁˆŲ±ŲÆŪŒ) are a group of languages spoken by Kurds in the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. Kurdish languages...
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    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...
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    the Hebrew-language acronym Tzahal (צהדל), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the Israeli Ground Forces...
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  • The Canaanite languages, sometimes referred to as Canaanite dialects, are one of three subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages, the others being...
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    Maltese is one of the official languages of the EU. As of 2024, there are 24 sovereign states where Modern Standard Arabic is an official language. The following...
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    Iranā€“Israel proxy conflict, also known as the Iranā€“Israel proxy war or Iranā€“Israel Cold War, is an ongoing proxy conflict between Iran and Israel. In the...
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    of Israel') were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan. The name of Israel...
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  • living East Slavic languages, and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages. It was the de facto and de jure official language of the former Soviet...
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    history of Israel Culture of Israel Architecture of Israel Cuisine of Israel Ethnic minorities in Israel Festivals in Israel Humor in Israel Languages of Israel...
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    as two separate languages within the Central (Hindustani) group of languages. The Dom and the Rom are most likely to be descendants of 2 different migration...
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    speaking a variety of other languages, such as Russian, English and French. As of July 31, 2023, a TGI survey indicated that Israel Hayom, distributed...
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