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Kubutz or qubbutz (modern Hebrew: קֻבּוּץ; IPA: [kuˈbuts], formerly קִבּוּץ‎, qibbūṣ) and shuruk (Hebrew: שׁוּרוּק, IPA: [ʃuˈʁuk], also known as shuruq)...

sin-dot and shin-dot, the letter "ש‎" (sin/shin) is used. 3 The dagesh, mappiq, and shuruk have different uses, but the same graphical representation, and hence...

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...

usually indicates the phoneme /a/ which is the "a" sound in the word spa and is transliterated as a. In these cases, its sound is identical to the sound...

and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and...

→ "da'awín", "בָּאֲוִיר‎" Morfix → "ba'avír". Shuruk and "ו‎" with a dagesh look identical ("וּ‎") and are only distinguishable through the fact that...

Ashkenazim in America. Compare Moishe vs. Moshe. Unstressed אֻ‎ kubutz or וּ‎ shuruk /u/ occasionally becomes [ʊ] in Ashkenazi Hebrew, when in all other...

preserved after the Babylonian captivity, and definitively recorded by Jewish sages in writing the Mishnah and other contemporary documents. A transitional...

and not consistent in the spoken language. Note 3: The dagesh, mappiq, and shuruk have different functions, even though they look the same. Note 4: The...

influenced by contact languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino), Judeo-Arabic dialects, and Modern Greek. There is some variation between...

sit/seat (/sɪt/ and /siːt/), hat/hut (/hæt/ and /hʌt/), and cop/cope (/kɒp/ and /koʊp/) are transliterated as the Hebrew vowels /i/, /a/ and /o/. The English...

In words which have the pattern /CaCoC/ in the singular and become /CəCuCCim/ with Kubutz in the plural, especially names of colors: כָּתֹם ('orange')...

the phoneme /a/ which is close to the "[a]" sound in the English word far and is transliterated as an a. In Modern Hebrew, a pataḥ makes the same sound...

and shin-dot, the letter "ש" (sin/shin) is used. [3] The dagesh, mappiq, and shuruk have different uses, but the same graphical representation, and hence...

in the Talmud and Midrash, and elaborately by many post-Talmudic commentators. It involves reading words and sentences as numbers and assigning numerical...

alphabet. It is part of the Masoretes' system of niqqud (vowel points), and was added to Hebrew orthography at the same time. It takes the form of a...

niqqud exist for segol, patah, and kamatz which contain a shva next to it. The following table contains the pronunciation and transliteration of the different...

1930s and completed in 1944. It is based on international norms, with additional letters devised to accommodate differences between English Braille and the...

word deep and is transliterated with "i". In Yiddish, it indicates the phoneme /ɪ/ which is the same as the "i" sound in the English word skip and is transliterated...

mostly pronounced the same as segol and indicates the phoneme /ɛ/, which is the same as the "e" sound in the vowel segol and is transliterated as an "e". There...