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  2. Aleph - Wikipedia

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    Maraqten identifies three different aleph traditions in East Arabian coins: a lapidary Aramaic form that realizes it as a combination of a V-shape and a straight stroke attached to the apex, much like a Latin K; a cursive Aramaic form he calls the "elaborated X-form", essentially the same tradition as the Hebrew reflex; and an extremely cursive ...

  3. Holam - Wikipedia

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    In the word דֹּאר ‎, the Biblical Hebrew spelling of the name Dor, the alef is a mater lectionis, and in traditional typography the holam is written above the alef 's right arm. In the word דֹּאַר ‎ ( /ˈdo.aʁ/ , "mail"), the alef is a consonant (a glottal stop ), under which appears the vowel pataḥ , so the ḥolam is written ...

  4. Aleph number - Wikipedia

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    Notably, ℵ ω is the first uncountable cardinal number that can be demonstrated within Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory not to be equal to the cardinality of the set of all real numbers 2 ℵ 0: For any natural number n ≥ 1, we can consistently assume that 2 ℵ 0 = ℵ n, and moreover it is possible to assume that 2 ℵ 0 is as least as large ...

  5. Mater lectionis - Wikipedia

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    A mater lectionis (/ ˌ m eɪ t ər ˌ l ɛ k t i ˈ oʊ n ɪ s / ⓘ MAY-tər LEK-tee-OH-niss, / ˌ m ɑː t ər-/ MAH-tər -⁠; [1] [2] Latin for 'mother of reading', pl. matres lectionis / ˌ m ɑː t r eɪ s-/ MAH-trayss -⁠; [2] original Hebrew: אֵם קְרִיאָה, romanized: ʾēm qərîʾāh) is any consonant that is used to indicate a vowel, primarily in the writing of Semitic ...

  6. Ayin - Wikipedia

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    Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated ʿ ) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Arabic ʿayn ع ‎, Aramaic ʿē 𐡏, Hebrew ʿayin ע ‎, Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, and Syriac ʿē ܥ (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).

  7. On the other hand, the women in the tales who do speak up are framed as wicked. Cinderella's stepsisters' language is decidedly more declarative than hers, and the woman at the center of the tale "The Lazy Spinner" is a slothful character who, to the Grimms' apparent chagrin, is "always ready with her tongue."

  8. Yiddish orthography - Wikipedia

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    In the traditional Yiddish orthographies where these letters are not pointed, the vowel is indicated by preceding it with a shtumer alef (reducing the use of which was a major focus of the normative efforts). The single and digraph forms of, for example, vov can be separated either with a dot or an embedded alef as וווּ or וואו (vu ...

  9. ‘Sahar Speaks’ by Huffington Post

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    There is no one better to tell the story of womenhood in Afghanistan than the women themselves