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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.
He is the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician hē 𐤄, Hebrew hē ה , Aramaic hē 𐡄, Syriac hē ܗ, and Arabic hāʾ ه . Its sound value is the voiceless glottal fricative ( [h] ). The proto-Canaanite letter gave rise to the Greek Epsilon Ε ε, [ 1] Etruscan 𐌄, Latin E, Ë and Ɛ, and Cyrillic Е, Ё, Є, Э ...
Modern Hebrew is written from right to left using the Hebrew alphabet, which is an abjad, or consonant-only script of 22 letters based on the "square" letter form, known as Ashurit (Assyrian), which was developed from the Aramaic script. A cursive script is used in handwriting. When necessary, vowels are indicated by diacritic marks above or ...
B. Cyrillic. В, Б. Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician bēt 𐤁 , Hebrew bēt ב , Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Syriac bēṯ ܒ, and Arabic bāʾ ب . Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop b or the voiced labiodental fricative v . The letter's name means "house" in various Semitic ...
History of the Hebrew alphabet. The Hebrew alphabet is a script that was derived from the Aramaic alphabet during the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods ( c.500 BCE – 50 CE). It replaced the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet which was used in the earliest epigraphic records of the Hebrew language .
In Hebrew, the letters that form those prefixes are called "formative letters" ( Hebrew: אוֹתִיּוֹת הַשִּׁמּוּשׁ, Otiyot HaShimush ). Eleven of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet are considered Otiyot HaShimush. These letters are Aleph ( א ), Bet ( ב ), He ( ה ), Vav ( ו ), Yud ( י ), Kaf ( כ ), Lamed ( ל ...
The word IVRIT ("Hebrew") written in modern Hebrew language (top) and in Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (bottom) Hebrew ( Hebrew alphabet: עִבְרִית , ʿĪvrīt, pronounced [ ivˈʁit ] ⓘ or [ ʕivˈrit ] ⓘ; Samaritan script: ࠏࠨࠁࠬࠓࠪࠉࠕʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀, Hebrew ʾālef א , Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀, Syriac ʾālap̄ ܐ, Arabic ʾalif ا , and North Arabian 𐪑. It also appears as South Arabian 𐩱 and Ge'ez ʾälef አ. These letters are believed to have derived from an ...