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  2. Aleph - Wikipedia

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    Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀, Hebrew ʾālef א ‎, Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀, Syriac ʾālap̄ ܐ, Arabic ʾalif ا ‎, and North Arabian 𐪑.

  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. Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian - Wikipedia

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    With the introduction of the Latin Extended Additional block to Unicode version 1.1 (1992), the addition of Egyptological alef and ayin to Unicode version 5.1 (2008) and the addition of Glottal I alias Egyptological yod to Unicode version 12.0 (2019), it is now possible to fully transliterate Egyptian texts using a Unicode typeface. The ...

  5. Modern Hebrew phonology - Wikipedia

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    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").

  6. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    This is one step down from full vocalization, where the vowel after the q would also be indicated by a fatḥah: قَلْب. The Qurʾān is traditionally written in full vocalization. The long i sound in some editions of the Qur’ān is written with a kasrah followed by a diacritic-less y, and long u by a ḍammah followed by a bare w.

  7. Hebrew diacritics - Wikipedia

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    Gen. 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters be collected". Letters in black, pointing in red, cantillation in blue [1] Hebrew orthography includes three types of diacritics: . Niqqud in Hebrew is the way to indicate vowels, which are omitted in modern orthography, using a set of ancillary glyphs.

  8. Oyfn Pripetshik - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Persian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    In a word that starts with a vowel, the first grapheme is a silent alef which carries the short vowel, e.g. اُمید (omid, meaning "hope"). In a word that ends with a vowel, letters ع , ه and و respectively become the proxy letters for zebar , zir and piš , e.g. نو ( now , meaning "new") or بسته ( bast-e , meaning "package").