Hebrew

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Hebrew Language

Hebrew is a Semitic language, descending from the Afro-Asiatic family of languages.  Hebrew has approximately 5 million speakers worldwide, with 4.8 million living in Israel.  It is one of the two official languages of Israel (the other is Arabic).  Hebrew speakers can also be found in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Canada, France, Germany, Judea and Samaria, Iran, Russia, Panama, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay.

Much of the Tanach (or, the Hebrew Bible) is written in Classical Hebrew.  The dialect known to scholars as Biblical Hebrew also constitutes a large part of the Tanach as we now know it today.  Hence, since ancient times, many Jews have referred to Hebrew as Leshôn Ha-Qôdesh (???? ?????), or "The Holy Tongue.”

Elizier Ben-Yehuda’s version of Modern Hebrew is based on Mishnaic spelling and Sephardic pronunciation. Due to the fact that many of Modern Hebrew’s first speakers had Yiddish as a native tongue, many Yiddish idioms and literal translations now exist in Modern Hebrew.

Hebrew Translation and Interpreting

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