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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.
Modern Hebrew has 25 to 27 consonants and 5 vowels [1], depending on the speaker and the analysis. Hebrew has been used primarily for liturgical, literary, and scholarly purposes for most of the past two millennia. As a consequence, its pronunciation was strongly influenced by the vernacular of individual Jewish communities. With the revival of ...
A page from the Shemot Devarim. The Shemot Devarim (Hebrew: שְמוֹתֿ דְבָֿרִים, Ashkenazi pronunciation sh'mós d'vorím: "The names of things") or Nomenclatura Hebraica (Latin, "Hebrew nomenclature") is a Yiddisch-Hebrew-Latin-German dictionary (read in a right-to-left direction, as in Hebrew), which was composed by the Renaissance scholar Elia Levita and published by Paul ...
According to Hebrew language#Sounds, Hebrew has five vowels and the schwa. They could be transcribed in such a way as the average English speaker, with no prior knowledge of Hebrew, could pronounce. Specifically: a would be transcribed a; ɛ would be transcribed e. There is also the special sound ə, which would also be transcribed e (or left ...
Schild en vriend: On 18 May 1302, the people of Bruges killed the French occupiers of the city during a nocturnal surprise attack. According to a famous legend, they stormed into the houses where they knew the tenants were forced to board and lodge French troops serving as city guards, roused every male person from his bed and forced him to repeat the challenge schild en vriend (shield and ...
Begadkefat (also begedkefet) is the phenomenon of lenition affecting the non-emphatic stop consonants of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic when they are preceded by a vowel and not geminated. The name is also given to similar cases of spirantization of post-vocalic plosives in other languages; for instance, in Jerba Berber. [1]
Kamatz or qamatz (Modern Hebrew: קָמָץ, IPA:; alternatively קָמֶץ qāmeṣ) is a Hebrew niqqud sign represented by two perpendicular lines (looking like an uppercase T) ָ underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, it usually indicates the phoneme /a/ which is the "a" sound in the word spa and is transliterated as a.
For example, Rashi often uses Hebrew letters to write French translations of Biblical Hebrew, marking it with a gershayim like an abbreviation (ex. אפייצימנ״טו appaisement, cf. "And thou wast pleased with me," Gen. 33:10). He usually appends בְּלַעַ״ז ("in the local language") afterwards.