Number of Hebrew speakers is unknown .
The most widely spoken Semitic languages today are ( numbers given are for native speakers only ) Arabic ( 300 million ) , Amharic ( 22 million ) , Tigrinya ( 7 million ) , Hebrew ( unknown ; 5 million native and non-native L1 speakers ) , Tigre ( ~1.05 million ) , Aramaic ( 575,000 to 1 million largely Assyrian fluent speakers ) ^ Jump up to : a b Assyrian Neo-Aramaic at Ethnologue ( 18th ed. ,
Semitic languages