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For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. Since Modern Hebrew has different pronunciations in Israel, certain letters may be transcribed differently depending on the background of the speaker.
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 ...
Ashkenazi Hebrew (Hebrew: הֲגִיָּה אַשְׁכְּנַזִּית, romanized: hagiyoh ashkenazis, Yiddish: אַשכּנזישע הבֿרה, romanized: ashkenazishe havore) is the pronunciation system for Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew favored for Jewish liturgical use and Torah study by Ashkenazi Jewish practice.
Closely related to the Sephardi pronunciation is the Italian pronunciation of Hebrew, which may be regarded as a variant. In communities from Italy, Greece and Turkey, he is not realized as [h] but as a silent letter because of the influence of Italian, Judaeo-Spanish and (to a lesser extent) Modern Greek, all of which lack the sound.
Kamatz or qamatz (Modern Hebrew: קָמָץ, IPA:; alternatively קָמֶץ qāmeṣ) is a Hebrew niqqud sign represented by two perpendicular lines (looking like an uppercase T) ָ underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, it usually indicates the phoneme /a/ which is the "a" sound in the word spa and is transliterated as a.
The song is about a melamed teaching his young students the Hebrew alphabet. By the end of the 19th century it was one of the most popular songs of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe , and as such it is a major musical memory of pre- Holocaust Europe.
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Mizrahi Hebrew, or Eastern Hebrew, refers to any of the pronunciation systems for Biblical Hebrew used liturgically by Mizrahi Jews: Jews from Arab countries or east of them and with a background of Arabic, Persian or other languages of Asia. As such, Mizrahi Hebrew is actually a blanket term for many dialects.