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The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, [a] Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.
- Aleph
Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first...
- Paleo-Hebrew Alphabet
The Paleo-Hebrew script (Hebrew: הכתב העברי הקדום), also...
- Biblical Hebrew Phonology
Biblical Hebrew (עִבְרִית מִקְרָאִית (Ivrit Miqra'it) ⓘ or...
- Cursive Hebrew
Cursive Hebrew (Hebrew: כתב עברי רהוט ktav ivri rahut,...
- Abjad
The name abjad is based on the Arabic alphabet's first (in...
- Dalet
Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth...
- Heth
Heth, sometimes written Chet or Ḥet, is the eighth letter of...
- Mid Back Rounded Vowel
The mid back rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in...
- Yiddish Alphabet
Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the...
- Canaanite Languages
Analogous to the Romance languages, the Canaanite languages...
- Aleph
Hebrew alphabet. Users of the language write Modern Hebrew from right to left using the Hebrew alphabet – an "impure" abjad, or consonant-only script, of 22 letters. The ancient paleo-Hebrew alphabet resembles those used for Canaanite and Phoenician.
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The history of the Hebrew alphabet is not to be confused with the history of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, so called not because it is ancestral to the Hebrew alphabet but because it was used to write the earliest form of the Hebrew language. "Paleo-Hebrew alphabet" is the modern term (coined by Solomon Birnbaum in 1954) used for the script otherwise ...
In the Talmud, the Paleo-Hebrew script is known as the Libona'a, associated with the Samaritan community who continued to preserve the script, and the Hebrew script is known as the Ashurith, associated with Assyria. The Talmudic sages did not share a uniform stance on the subject the development of the Hebrew alphabet. Some claimed that Paleo-Hebre...
A Jewish stele near the archeological excavations of the early medieval walls of SerdicaA replica of the Gezer Calendar in the Israel Museumin Jerusalem.The Hebrew alphabet, the holy language of the Bible, is used for biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, Yiddish, and Ladino. It consists of 22 letters, all consonants, none of which are lowercase. Each letter has its own sound and numerical value.
The Hebrew alphabet is often called the " alef-bet," because of its first two letters. Note that there are two versions of some letters. Kaf, Mem, Nun, Peh and Tzadeh all are written differently when they appear at the end of a word than when they appear in the beginning or middle of the word.
Hebrew alphabet (אלפבית עברי) The first alphabet used to write Hebrew emerged during the late second and first millennia BC. It is closely related to the Phoenician alphabet. The modern Hebrew alphabet was developed from an alphabet known as Proto-Hebrew/Early Aramaic.
The Hebrew language, also referred to as the Hebraic language, is the language of Jewish people around the world, an official language of Israel and in linguistics a Semitic language. Many Jewish people speak English and also speak Hebrew, as Hebrew is part of Judaism. It was first spoken in Israel.
