Hebrew (,
‘Ivrit) is a
Semitic language of the
Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in
Israel and by an unknown number of people in
Jewish communities around the world. In Israel, it is the
de facto language of the state and the people, as well as being one of the three official languages (together with
Arabic and
English), and it is spoken by the majority of the population.