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Middle East > Israel > Language

ISRAELI LANGUAGE STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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English speakers 100,000 [11th of 52]
English status
Official language. Bible 1535-1989.
English-speaking population > As an additional language 100,000 [48th of 59]
English-speaking population > Total 100,000 [51st of 99]
Hungarian language > Geographic distribution > Speakers 70,000 [8th of 11]
John Doe > Informal names for unknown or unspecified persons in various countries/regions
Israel Israeli ישראל ישראלי and also Ploni פלוני and Almoni אלמוני (as a party to Ploni) or the latter combined to Ploni Almoni (taken from Ruth 4:1, where it is used in place of the actual name of Boaz's relative, whose name is omitted as he failed to perform his levirate duty).
Languages
Hebrew (official), Arabic used officially for Arab minority, English most commonly used foreign language
Languages of the African Union > Illiteracy > Literacy rate 96.9 [56th of 174]
Nobel Prize in Literature > Most awarded countries > % 0.98 [22nd of 37]
Nobel Prize in Literature > Most awarded countries > Laureates 1 [22nd of 37]

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SOURCES: Ethnologue; Wikipedia: List of countries by English-speaking population ; Wikipedia: List of countries by English-speaking population; Wikipedia: Hungarian language ; Wikipedia: John Doe ; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Wikipedia: Languages of the African Union ; Wikipedia: Nobel Prize in Literature

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Israel, State of Israel, Medinat Yisra'el, Yisra'el

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