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...

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

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon and Syria to the north, the...

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...

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...

The Israel–Hamas war, also known as the Gaza War, is an ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups. It is the fifth...

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

official language of the State of Israel and the only Canaanite language still spoken as a native language. The revival of Hebrew predates the creation of the...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Israel began on 8 October 2023, when Hezbollah launched rockets and artillery at Israeli positions following the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel...

Modern South Arabian languages (non-Central Semitic languages) were spoken in southern Arabia at this time. To the north, in the oases of northern Hejaz, Dadanitic...

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...

On 8 December 2024, Israel invaded the buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and carried out an aerial campaign targeting the...

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

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...

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...

European Languages 6. Brussels: European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages, 23–39. Varol-Bornes, Marie-Christine (2008). Manual of Judeo-Spanish: language and...

the Canaanite languages, known today as Biblical Hebrew. In the Iron Age, the kingdoms of Israel and Judah emerged. The Kingdom of Israel, with its capital...

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...

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

Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, marking the sixth Israeli invasion of Lebanon since 1978. The invasion took place after nearly 12 months of Israel–Hezbollah...

The demographics of Israel, monitored by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, encompass various attributes that define the nation's populace. Since...

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...