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The letter is dalet in the modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation (see Tav (letter)). Dales is still used by many Ashkenazi Jews and daleth by some Jews of Middle-Eastern background, especially in the Jewish diaspora. In some academic circles, it is called daleth, following the Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation. It is also called daled.
In Ashkenazi pronunciation, tav without a dagesh is pronounced , while in other traditions [which?] it is assumed to have been pronounced at the time niqqud was introduced. In Modern Hebrew, it is always pronounced . The letters gimel (ג ) and dalet (ד ) may also contain a dagesh kal.
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.
The pronunciation of the following letters can also be modified with the geresh diacritic. The represented sounds are however foreign to Hebrew phonology , i.e., these symbols mainly represent sounds in foreign words or names when transliterated with the Hebrew alphabet, and not loanwords .
ד (Dalet without dagesh) is normally pronounced , but occasionally (such as in the Iraqi pronunciation of the words adonai and, in the Shema only, eḥad) , like Arabic ذ (voiced dental fricative). ו is pronounced in some countries and in others (such Iraq).
ד׳ אַמּוֹת, ד״א (dalet amot) - four amot; four cubits; דָּבָר אַחֵר, ד״א (davar acher) - 1) Lit. Something else. 2) Another version. 3) a pig. הוי׳ אלוקיכם, ד״א (Havayeh Elokeichem) - the Lord your God. Note the slightly uncommon substitution of dalet ד in place of the hei ה
As a consequence, its pronunciation was strongly influenced by the vernacular of individual Jewish communities. With the revival of Hebrew as a native language, and especially with the establishment of Israel, the pronunciation of the modern language rapidly coalesced. The two main accents of modern Hebrew are Oriental and Non-Oriental. [2]
Some words or suffixes of Yiddish origin or pronunciation are marked with a geresh, e.g. the diminutive suffix לֶ׳ה – -le, e.g. יענקל׳ה – Yankale (as in Yankale Bodo), or the words חבר׳ה – [ˈχevre], 'guys' (which is the Yiddish pronunciation of Hebrew חברה [χevˈra] 'company'), or תכל׳ס – [ˈtaχles], 'bottom ...