Extinct as a spoken language by the 4th centuryCE;Sephardi Hebrew revived in the 1880s, and now with around 7 million speakers[citation needed], (United States: 195,375).1
1United States Census 2000 PHC-T-37. Ability to Speak English by Language Spoken at Home: 2000.Table 1a.PDF(11.8KiB)
IngEbreyu (עִבְרִית,‘Ivrit) metung yangSemitic amanu da rengAfro-Asiatic language family, ampong masasalita ya kareng maiggit pitung yutang katau kingIsrael ampong magagamit ya kareng pangadi o pamagaral karengJewish a communidad mabilug a yatu. King Israel, iti ingde factong amanu keng state ampo kareng malda, at makanyan mu ring bilang metung kareng aduang opisyal a amanu (kambe ningArabic), ampong magagamit yang salita kareng keraklan da reng populasiun. Ing Hebrew iya mu rin ing magagamit a salita da rengSamaritans, agiang mo ngeni kulang lang libu deng mitagan a Samaritan. Bilang dayung amanu pagaralan de reng Ujew ampo reng magaral Judaism ampong Israel, archeologists ampong deng linguists at magpakadalubhasa kengMiddle East at ding kayang civilisasiun ampo reng theologians.
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Mechon MamreArchived Agostu 7, 2011 at theWayback Machine - The Bible, Mishnah, Talmud (Babylonian and Palestinian), Tosefta, and Mishneh Torah
Early Hebrew NewspapersArchived Mayu 18, 2011 at theWayback Machine Thousands of pages of mid- to late-19th-century and early 20th-century newspapers written in Hebrew and readable on line. Including contemporary accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg, the assassination of Czar Alexander II, the Dreyfus affair, etc.
