Language code: he

Technical information about ISO 639 language code he

Technical information about he language code (Hebrew) is available below.

ISO code

he

Language

Official

Hebrew

Native

עברית

Scripts
Text direction

Right-to-Left

Plural rules

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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.

Language presence globally

Speakers

8.3M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Hebrew speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

he-IL Hebrew (Israel)

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