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  2. Modern Hebrew phonology - Wikipedia

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    Modern Hebrew has 25 to 27 consonants and 5 vowels [1], depending on the speaker and the analysis. Hebrew has been used primarily for liturgical, literary, and scholarly purposes for most of the past two millennia. As a consequence, its pronunciation was strongly influenced by the vernacular of individual Jewish communities. With the revival of ...

  3. Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Yiddish alphabet, a modified version of the Hebrew alphabet used to write Yiddish, is a true alphabet, with all vowels rendered in the spelling, except in the case of inherited Hebrew words, which typically retain their Hebrew consonant-only spellings.

  4. Help:IPA/Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    Long vowels (in Tiberian Hebrew) can be transcribed using the IPA gemination sign ː: the word for "hand" would be יָד ‎ /jɔːð/ in absolute state and יַד־ ‎ /jað/ in construct state. [12] Indicating normative consonant gemination uses a double consonant: גַּנָּב ‎ ('a thief') /ɡanˈnav/ not /ɡaˈnːav/

  5. Hebrew diacritics - Wikipedia

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    In modern Israeli orthography, vowel and consonant pointing is seldom used, except in specialised texts such as dictionaries, poetry, or texts for children or for new immigrants. Israeli Hebrew has five vowel phonemes— / i / , / e / , / a / , / o / and / u / —but many more written symbols for them.

  6. Hebrew accents - Wikipedia

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    For dialects, see Hebrew dialects (disambiguation). Gen. 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters be collected". Letters in black, niqqud in red, cantillation in blue. There are two types of Hebrew accents that go on Hebrew letters: Niqqud, a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters

  7. Hebraization of English - Wikipedia

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    Hebrew has only 5 vowel sounds, with lack of discrimination in Hebrew between long and short vowels. In comparison, English which has around 12 vowel sounds (5 long, 7 short) depending on dialect. As a result, words such as sit/seat (/sɪt/ and /siːt/), hat/hut (/hæt/ and /hʌt/), and cop/cope (/kɒp/ and /koʊp/) are transliterated as the ...

  8. Hebrew phonology - Wikipedia

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  9. Hebrew language - Wikipedia

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    Like all Semitic languages, the Hebrew language exhibits a pattern of stems consisting typically of "triliteral", or 3-consonant consonantal roots, from which nouns, adjectives, and verbs are formed in various ways: e.g. by inserting vowels, doubling consonants, lengthening vowels and/or adding prefixes, suffixes or infixes. 4-consonant roots ...