The sounds of the world's languages | Romanization of the Hebrew alphabet Thesis |
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, "Proto-Sinaitic — Progenitor of the Alphabet" Rosetta 9 2011 , 16—40 here: 38—40 | This convention has been adopted by DIN in 1982 and by ISO in 1984 for Arabic , and Hebrew , |
In Israeli Hebrew except for Mizrahi pronunciations , it represents a glottal stop in certain cases but is usually silent it behaves the same as.
These characters were introduced in Unicode in version 5 | The Phoenician letter is the origin of the Greek, Latin and Cyrillic letter |
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Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual, pg | It is , its unvoiced counterpart being |
It is worth noting that the phonemes corresponding to alef and ayin in are by convention by more distinctive signs: is rendered by two semi-circles open to the left, stacked vertically, and is rendered by a single full-width semi-circle open to the right.
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