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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 ...
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 ...
The term was coined to avoid the notion that a writing system that represents sounds must be either a syllabary or an alphabet, which would imply that a system like Aramaic must be either a syllabary, as argued by Ignace Gelb, or an incomplete or deficient alphabet, as most other writers had said before Daniels. Daniels put forward, this is a ...
The most common occasion for not writing the /o/ sound as a vav in text without niqqud is when in text with niqqud the mater lectionis is Alef (א) or He (ה) instead of vav. In the Bible some words are irregularly and inconsistently spelled with ה as a mater lectionis: זֹה alongside זוֹ, e.g. בֵּיתֹה alongside בֵּיתוֹ, etc.
Other variants exist: for example in the United Kingdom, the original tradition was to use the northern German pronunciation, but over the years the sound of ḥolam has tended to merge with the local pronunciation of long "o" as in "toe" (more similar to the southern German pronunciation), and some communities have abandoned Ashkenazi Hebrew ...
Samaritan is a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, which was a variety of the Phoenician alphabet.Paleo-Hebrew is the alphabet in which large parts of the Hebrew Bible were originally penned according to the consensus of most scholars, who also believe that these scripts are descendants of the Proto-Sinaitic script.
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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.