Hebrew is natively spoken by about 6 million people, primarily in Israel and among Jewish communities worldwide. It is central to Jewish cultural and religious identity, being the language of the Torah and Jewish liturgy. Revived in the late 19th century, Hebrew is written in the Hebrew alphabet and features a subject-verb-object (SVO) word order, a system of roots and patterns for word formation, and a complex verbal system that indicates tense, aspect, and mood.