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Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic ʾalif ا , Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀, Hebrew ʾālef א , North Arabian 𐪑, Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀, Syriac ʾālap̄ ܐ.
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
הָרֹאשׁ harosh (the head) Before the harsh gutturals ה and ח it is הַ . הַהוֹד hahod (the glory) הַחֹשֶׁךְ hachoshekh (the darkness) Before an unaccented הָ and עָ and always before חָ it is הֶ . הֶהָרִים heharim (the mountains) הֶעָפָר he'afar (the dust)
The final H sound is hardly ever pronounced in Modern Hebrew. However, the final H with Mappiq still retains the guttural characteristic that it should take a patach and render the pronunciation /a(h)/ at the end of the word, for example, גָּבוֹהַּ gavoa(h) ("tall").
For the most accurate transliteration, below is a table describing the different vowel sounds and their corresponding letters. Hebrew has only 5 vowel sounds, with lack of discrimination in Hebrew between long and short vowels. In comparison, English which has around 12 vowel sounds (5 long, 7 short) depending on dialect.
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"Komets-alef: o!" [note 2] Learn, children, with great enthusiasm. So I instruct you; He among you who learns Hebrew pronunciation faster – He will receive a flag. Learn children, don't be afraid, Every beginning is hard; Lucky is the one has learned Torah, What more does a person need? When you grow older, children, You will understand by ...
Guttural roots contain a guttural consonant (such as alef (א), hey (ה), het (ח), or ayin (ע) in any position; or resh (ר) as the second letter).Hey (ה) as the third root is usually a hollow root marker due to being a vowel spelling rather than one of any consonant, and is only considered a guttural root in the third position if historically pronounced.