he
Technical information about ISO 639 language code he
The table below provides technical details for the Hebrew language, designated by the he
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Hebrew belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family, more precisely to the Semitic subgroup. It is the official language of Israel and is written using the Hebrew alphabet. It is estimated that there are more than 8.3 million speakers worldwide.
Speakers
8.3M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Hebrew speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
he-IL
– Hebrew (Israel)
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