Country Info

Israel Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 8,059,018 people (97% of Israel) that can read or write at least one language.

12 Writing Systems used in Israel

Hebrew (Hebrew)

he-hebr
language code
8,299,710
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
7,054,753
people

Arabic (Arabic)

ar-arab
language code
1,659,942
people

Russian (Cyrillic)

ru-cyrl
language code
912,968
people

Romanian (Latin)

ro-latn
language code
307,089
people

Yiddish (Hebrew)

yi-hebr
language code
248,991
people

Polish (Latin)

pl-latn
language code
124,495
people

Ladino (Hebrew)

lad-hebr
language code
107,896
people

Hungarian (Latin)

hu-latn
language code
82,997
people

Amharic (Ethiopic)

am-ethi
language code
48,968
people

Tigrinya (Ethiopic)

ti-ethi
language code
9,959
people

Malayalam (Malayalam)

ml-mlym
language code
7,967
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR