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The presence of a dagesh ḥazak or consonant-doubling in a word may be entirely morphological, or, as is often the case, is a lengthening to compensate for a deleted consonant. A dagesh ḥazak may be placed in letters for one of the following reasons: The letter follows the definite article, the word "the".
The dot in the middle of some of the letters, called a dagesh kal, also modifies the sounds of the letters ב , כ and פ in modern Hebrew (in some forms of Hebrew it modifies also the sounds of the letters ג , ד and/or ת ; the dagesh chazak – orthographically indistinguishable from the dagesh kal – designates ...
The only pronunciation tradition to preserve and distinguish all begadkefat letters is Yemenite Hebrew. However, in Yemenite Hebrew, gimel with dagesh is a voiced postalveolar affricate under the influence of Judeo-Yemeni Arabic; it diverged from Mishnaic Hebrew .
The letter Pe is one of the six letters which can receive a Dagesh Kal. The six are Bet, Gimel, Daleth, Kaph, Pe, and Tav. Variant forms of Pe/Fe.
Note 2: The letter "ש " is used since it can only be represented by that letter. Note 3: The dagesh, mappiq, and shuruk are different, however, they look the same and are inputted in the same manner. Also, they are represented by the same Unicode character. Note 4: The letter "ו " is used since it can only be represented by that letter.
The kubutz sign is represented by three diagonal dots " ֻ" underneath a letter.. The shuruk is the letter vav with a dot in the middle and to the left of it. The dot is identical to the grammatically different signs dagesh and mappiq, but in a fully vocalized text it is practically impossible to confuse them: shuruk itself is a vowel sign, so if the letter before the vav doesn't have its own ...
In addition, 3 letters (historically 6), can take a different sound depending on if there is a dot (called a dagesh) in the middle of the letter (a bet, kaf, and pe). In full spelling, the dot is not included, regardless if it is making one sound or the other.
The letter kaf is one of the six letters that can receive a dagesh kal. The other five are bet , gimel , daleth , pe , and tav (see Hebrew alphabet for more about these letters). There are two orthographic variants of this letter that alter the pronunciation: