Not to be stupid but what language is spoken in israel?

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kismet

Israel's first official language is Hebrew.
Its second official language is Arabic.

solventabuser

Modern hebrew - for day-to-day communication (although arabic is an official language too). :-)

dandyl

mostly hebrew, then english and arabic (the 2 other official languages)
but because israel is made up of so many immigrants you hear all sorts of languages, there are many russians as well, so you hear russian as well

Hebrew, the language of the Bible, and Arabic are the official languages of Israel. Hebrew, Arabic and English are compulsory subjects at school. French, Spanish, German, Yiddish, Russian, Polish and Hungarian are widely spoken.

Local and international newspapers and periodicals in a number of languages are readily available. All street and most commercial signs are in Hebrew and English and often in Arabic.

baby_face_paris

Hebrew (modern), Arabic and English mainly.

rainbowchild

Modern hebrew, Arabic and English are the three main languages spoken

Modern Hebrew, English and Arabic are most common.

Tháº¹ WhÃ¯táº¹ RÃ¥bbÃ¯tÂ³

Hebrew.

DARREN G

hebrew or arabic

Warren S

The official languages are Hebrew and Arabic. English is widely spoken.

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Hebrew and Arabic and English
but I found many other languages
all over

Firas S

Modern hebrew for almost everything you want to do (buying,applying for college.....)there is also arabic which is spoken in arabic villages and cities but if you gotta do a government issue you've got to speak hebrew or buy something from a cell provider company like Orange or Cellcom. English is taught in schools and colleges mostly but not spoken on the streets. Russian is also spoken here because of the russian people that come from russia for immigration.

legalbgl

Hebrew and English in general. Although people speak Russian, Arabic, Ethiopian, Spanish, Yiddish, German. etc.

Aaron

Hebrew is the most common language but most Israelis also speak decent English, some Israelis speak Arabic.

One Way! Jesus!

Living languages

Adyghe
[ady] 3,000 in Israel (1987). Kafr Kama and Rehaniya, small border villages. Alternate names: West Circassian, Adygey. Classification: North Caucasian, West Caucasian, Circassian

Amharic
[amh] 40,000 in Israel (1994 H. Mutzafi). Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, South, Ethiopian, South, Transversal, Amharic-Argobba
More information.

Arabic, Judeo-Iraqi
[yhd] 100,000 in Israel (1994). Population total all countries: 100,100. Originally from Iraq. Also spoken in India, Iraq, United Kingdom. Alternate names: Iraqi Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Iraqi-Baghdadi Arabic, Arabi, Yahudic. Dialects: Not intelligible with Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic, Judeo-Tunisian Arabic, or Judeo-Moroccan Arabic. Close to Baghdadi Arabic and North Mesopotamian Arabic. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic

Arabic, Judeo-Moroccan
[aju] 250,000 in Israel (1992 H. Mutzafi). Population total all countries: 258,925. Also spoken in Canada, France, Morocco. Dialects: Many dialects. Much intelligibility with Tunisian Judeo-Arabic, some with Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic, but none with Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. May be inherently intelligible with Moroccan Arabic. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic

Arabic, Judeo-Tripolitanian
[yud] 30,000 in Israel (1994 H. Mutzafi). Population total all countries: 35,000. Originally from Tripolitania, Libya. None left in Libya. Also spoken in Italy. Alternate names: Tripolitanian Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Tripolitanian-Libyan Arabic, Tripolita'it, Yudi. Dialects: Not intelligible with Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. Medium intelligibility with Judeo-Tunisian Arabic and Judeo-Morocco Arabic. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic

Arabic, Judeo-Tunisian
[ajt] 45,000 in Israel (1995 H. Mutzafi). Population total all countries: 45,500. Also spoken in France, Italy, Spain, Tunisia, USA. Dialects: Medium intelligibility with Judeo-Moroccan Arabic and Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic, but none with Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. A lexicon of 5,000 words in 1950 had 79% words of Arabic origin, 15% Romance loanwords, 4.4% Hebrew loanwords, 1.6% others (D. Cohen 1985:254). Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic

Arabic, Judeo-Yemeni
[jye] 50,000 in Israel (1995 Y. Kara). Population total all countries: 51,000. Also spoken in Yemen. Alternate names: Judeo-Yemeni, Yemenite Judeo-Arabic. Dialects: San`a, `Aden, Be:da, Habban. Language varieties are all markedly different from their coterritorial Muslim ones. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic

Arabic, South Levantine Spoken
[ajp] 910,000 in Israel. Alternate names: Levantine, Palestanian-Jordanian Arabic. Dialects: Madani, Fellahi. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic

Arabic, Standard
[arb] Middle East, North Africa. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
More information.

Armenian
[ye] 3,000 in Israel (1971 The Armenian Review). Jerusalem. Alternate names: Haieren, Somkhuri, Ermenice, Armjanski. Dialects: Western Armenian. Classification: Indo-European, Armenian

Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic
Bukharic
Domari
Dzhidi
English
Hebrew
HulaulÃ¡
Hungarian
Israeli Sign Language
Judeo-Berber
Judeo-Georgian
Judeo-Tat
Ladino
LishÃ¡n DidÃ¡n
Lishana Deni
Lishanid Noshan
Polish
Romanian
Russian
Tigrigna
Yevanic
Yiddish Sign Language
Yiddish, Eastern

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scrambulls

Not having had the pleasure of visiting there I wouldn't know for certain but imagine as Jerusalem is a very cosmopolitan city that you would find speakers of most common languages there. So my answer would be depends on who you are talking to!

Anonymous

arabic and hebrew

J-UNIT

hebrew, mainly by jews(arabs)

arabic, mainly by arabs(jews)

hebrish......an english hebrew spoken by american jews who make aliyah and move to israel!!!

sorry i had to add that!!!!

Hatikvah JPA

The official languages are Hebrew, English, and Russian
.

Joshua N

Official: Hebrew and Arabic
Unofficial, but still used: Adyghe, Amharic, Judeo-Iraqi*, Judeo-Moroccan, Judeo-Tripolitanian, Judeo-Tunisian, Judeo-Yemeni, South Levantine, Armenian, Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Bukharic, Domari, Dzhidi, English, HulaulÃ¡, Hungarian, Israeli Sign Language, Judeo-Berber, Judeo-Georgian, Judeo-Tat, Ladino, LishÃ¡n DidÃ¡n, Lishana Deni, Lishanid Noshan, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Tigrigna, Yevanic, Yiddish Sign Language, and Yiddish

ATM

they speak Zulu

nedjmaside

OPPRESSION LANGUAGE !