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Heth, sometimes written Chet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ḥēt 𐤇, Hebrew ḥēt ח , Aramaic ḥēṯ 𐡇, Syriac ḥēṯ ܚ, and Arabic ḥāʾ ح . Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal /ħ/, or velar /x/.
This sound is the most commonly cited realization of the Semitic letter hēth, which occurs in all dialects of Arabic, Classical Syriac, Western Neo-Aramaic, Central Neo-Aramaic, Ge'ez, Tigre, Tigrinya as well as Biblical, Mishnaic and Mizrahi Hebrew. It has also been reconstructed as appearing in Ancient Egyptian, a related Afro-Asiatic language.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Hebrew on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hebrew in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Unlike the other sounds in this table, the sound represented by ח׳ is indeed a native sound in Hebrew; the geresh is however used only when transliteration must distinguish between and , in which case ח׳ transliterates the former and ח the latter, whereas in everyday usage ח without geresh is pronounced only dialectically but ...
There is some variation between the various forms of Sephardi Hebrew, but the following generalisations may be made: The stress tends to fall on the last syllable wherever that is the case in Biblical Hebrew. The letter ע (`ayin) is realized as a sound, but the specific sound varies between communities.
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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.
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