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  2. Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian. In modern ...

  3. Yiddish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language.It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew script, which is used as the basis of a full vocalic alphabet.

  4. History of the Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew alphabet was later adapted in order to write down the languages of the Jewish diaspora (Karaim, Kivruli, Judæo-Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish, etc.), and was retained all the while in relatively unadapted form throughout the diaspora for Hebrew, which remained the language of Jewish law, scriptures and scholarship.

  5. Yiddish - Wikipedia

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    Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet, but its orthography differs significantly from that of Hebrew. In Hebrew, many vowels are represented only optionally by diacritical marks called niqqud whereas Yiddish uses letters to represent all vowels. Several Yiddish letters consist of another letter combined with a niqqud mark resembling a ...

  6. Solitreo - Wikipedia

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    Solitreo (Hebrew: סוליטריאו ,סוֹלִיטְרֵיוֹ) is a cursive form of the Hebrew alphabet. Traditionally a Sephardi script, it is the predecessor of modern cursive Hebrew currently used for handwriting in modern Israel and for Yiddish.

  7. Vaybertaytsh - Wikipedia

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    Vaybertaytsh is shown at the far right, Hebrew block print second to right, with Latin and German following. Vaybertaytsh (Yiddish: װײַבערטײַטש, lit. 'women's taytsh') or mashket (Yiddish: מאַשקעט), [note 1] is a semi-cursive script typeface for the Yiddish alphabet.

  8. Aleph - Wikipedia

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    In Yiddish, [11] aleph is used for several orthographic purposes in native words, usually with different diacritical marks borrowed from Hebrew niqqud: With no diacritics, aleph is silent; it is written at the beginning of words before vowels spelled with the letter vov or yud. For instance, oykh 'also' is spelled אויך.

  9. Tsade - Wikipedia

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    The letter is named "tsadek" in Yiddish, [1] and Hebrew speakers often give it a similar name as well. This name for the letter probably originated from a fast recitation of the alphabet (i.e., " tsadi , qoph " → " tsadiq , qoph "), influenced by the Hebrew word tzadik , meaning "righteous person".

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