1 Israeli Hebrew – an introduction
In this chapter Israeli Hebrew is defined and presented, as well as grammar and description books written on Israeli Hebrew and/or Modern Hebrew.
As of December 2012 (CBS 2013), Colloquial Israeli Hebrew, elsewhere also referred to as Modern Hebrew, is spoken among 7,984,500 Israeli residents within the state of Israel, out of whom 4,378,000 are native speakers, and the rest are either bilingual, or speak Israeli Hebrew as a second language. According to various, unofficial, estimates, Israeli Hebrew is also the native language of over half a million speakers, living outside Israel. Slight linguistic differences can be observed between different populations of Israeli Hebrew speakers ; such differences can ...
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