Where they are it is because a weak consonant such as א alef, ה he, ו vav, or י yod has combined with a previous vowel and become silent or by imitation of such cases in spelling of other forms. The Hebrew alphabet is an abjad: vowels are normally not indicated.
This is similar to the Arabic alphabet, although much simpler. Some letters have a different form used at the ends of words: these are shown in the table below the normal form.īoth the old Hebrew script and the modern Jewish script have only one case, but in the modern script some letters have special final forms used only at the end of a word. The Hebrew alphabet consists of the following letters. Prior to that, Hebrew was written using the old Hebrew script, which evolved during the 9th century BC from the Phoenician script the Samaritans still write Hebrew in a variant of this script for religious works (see Samaritan alphabet). The modern script used for writing Hebrew (usually called the Jewish script by scholars, and also traditionally known as the square script, or the Assyrian script), evolved during the 3rd century BC from the Aramaic script, which was used by Jews for writing Hebrew since the 6th century BC. The number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet, their order, their names, and their phonetic values are virtually identical to those of the Aramaic alphabet, as both Hebrews and Arameans borrowed the Phoenician alphabet for their uses during the end of the 2nd millennium BC. The Hebrew alphabet was in origin an abjad, in other words it had letters for consonants only, but means were later devised to indicate vowels, first by using consonant letters as matres lectionis, later by separate vowel points or niqqud.
The Hebrew word for "alphabet" is אלף-בית ( alef-bet), named after the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
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It is has also been used in mildly adapted forms for writing several languages of the Jewish diaspora, most famously Yiddish, Ladino, and Judaeo-Arabic (for a full and detailed list, see Jewish languages). The Hebrew alphabet is a set of 22 letters used for writing the Hebrew language. For Hebrew diacritical marks, see niqqud (for the vowel points) and cantillation. Template:Alphabet Template:SpecialCharsNote This article is mainly about Hebrew letters.
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