Israel
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Official Name
State of Israel
Population Full
8,675,000 (2020 World Factbook)
General Remarks
About half the Jewish people are Sephardi and half Ashkenazi
Principal Languages
Hebrew, Standard Arabic
Literacy Rate
98% (2011 World Factbook)
International Conventions
CDE (1961), ICCPR (1991), UNCRPD (2012)
General References
Campbell and King 2011, Comrie 1987, Fischer and Jastrow 1980, Fishman 1985, Gold 1974, Paper 1978, Sáenz-Badillos 1993
Deaf Population
4,500–306,000 (1998)
Language Counts
The number of established languages listed for Israel is 39. All are living languages. Of these, 23 are indigenous and 16 are non-indigenous. Furthermore, 5 are institutional, 9 are developing, 3 are vigorous, 9 are in trouble, and 13 are dying. Also listed are 12 unestablished languages and 2 macrolanguages.