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كـ . the cross-barred form, notably al-kāf al-mashkūlah or al-kāf al-mashqūqah, [ 1 ] is the Nastaliq form used predominantly in the Perso-Arabic script and as an alternative form of the version above in all forms of Arabic. It has a particular use in the Sindhi language of Pakistan where it represents the aspirated /kʰ/ and is called ...
The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, [a] Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.
Qoph is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician qōp 𐤒, Hebrew qūp̄ ק , Aramaic qop 𐡒, Syriac qōp̄ ܩ, and Arabic qāf ق .. Its original sound value was a West Semitic emphatic stop, presumably [].
Meaning Comments Examples מ from/of/out of Before ordinary letters (excluding the gutturals and ר ) it is מִ followed by a Dagesh Chazak. Before gutturals and ר it is מֵ . Before the definite article (ה ) it is מֵ as in 2, and the article remains intact; or it becomes מִן plus ה .
Niqqud marks are small compared to the letters, so they can be added without retranscribing texts whose writers did not anticipate them. In modern Israeli orthography, niqqud is mainly used in specialised texts such as dictionaries, poetry, or texts for children or new immigrants to Israel. [ 2 ]
Phoenician 12th c. BCE. Pahlavi. The Paleo-Hebrew script (Hebrew: הכתב העברי הקדום), also Palaeo-Hebrew, Proto-Hebrew or Old Hebrew, is the writing system found in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, including pre-Biblical and Biblical Hebrew, from southern Canaan, also known as the biblical kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah.
Hebrew diacritics. Gen. 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters be collected". Letters in black, pointing in red, cantillation in blue[1] Hebrew orthography includes three types of diacritics: Niqqud in Hebrew is the way to indicate vowels, which are omitted in modern orthography, using a set of ancillary glyphs. Since the vowels can be understood ...
Ktav Ashuri (Hebrew: כְּתָב אַשּׁוּרִי, k'tav ashurí, lit. "Assyrian Writing") also (Ktav) Ashurit, is the traditional Hebrew language name of the Hebrew alphabet, used to write both Hebrew and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. It is often referred to as (the) Square script. The names " Ashuri " (Assyrian) or " square script " are ...