I was just curious if people speak Hebrew or a different language there.
2006-10-21 04:14:51 · 13 answers · asked by Christine D 1 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Israel
The majority of Israel (who's Jewish) speaks Hebrew, as it's the official language in Israel today (alongside with Arabic and English, the three formal languages of Israel as it was decided by the British Mandate). Hebrew is the language of the public/ governmental institutes, journalism etc...
The Israeli Arabs and the Palestinians speak Arabic, and so do some of the Jewish Israelis who came from Arab countries.
Some of the other spoken languages in Israel, Russian, Amharic, Yiddish, German, English etc... represent different Jewish groups in Israel.
2006-10-22 03:12:04 · answer #1 · answered by yotg 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Definitely Hebrew. The Arabs or Muslims (I know they're not really fungible) usually speak Arabic. Nobody really speaks Aramaic nowadays, except when learning the Talmud, but it is not used for regular conversation. Yiddish is spoken a lot in the more religious parts of Israel and Ladino is not really used. The main language is Hebrew and a lot of Israelis know English. Many things are affected by English.
2016-05-22 07:35:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Israel the main lenguage is Hebrew but people also speak Arbaic, English, French, Spanish, Russian, you can find a variety of people in Israel.
2006-10-23 00:50:44 · answer #3 · answered by cholilagros 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Israel has two official languages: Hebrew and Arabic.
2006-10-21 04:20:44 · answer #4 · answered by arkguy20 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's Hebrew for the Israelites. Palestinians speak Arabic
2006-10-21 04:17:35 · answer #5 · answered by HK3 Soul Smash 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hebrew is the main language there but as there are so many new immigrants you might hear Russian, English, German, Polish, Rumanian and ofcourse Arabic. The official languages are Hebrew, Arabic and English.
2006-10-21 04:22:55 · answer #6 · answered by Josephine 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
initially. Hebrew and Arabic, but another 100 different languages in small proportion
2006-10-21 07:01:19 · answer #7 · answered by zilber 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hebrew, but you can get around fine with English.
2006-10-22 19:17:30 · answer #8 · answered by mo mosh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We speak all of the languages because we come from a lot of countries like Russia, North America and so on.
2006-10-21 15:44:58 · answer #9 · answered by ISRAEL4ME... 1 · 3⤊ 3⤋
The people in Israel speak only one language and it is their mother language ... their mother language is Donkey language ( Sorry for the donkey nation).
The second language is the language which mr.arifin ceper mentioned.
2006-10-21 17:06:17 · answer #10 · answered by handsome man 1 · 1⤊ 5⤋