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  2. Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Ancient Hebrew writings - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Hebrew writings are texts written in Biblical Hebrew using the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The earliest known precursor to Hebrew, an inscription in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet , is the Khirbet Qeiyafa Inscription (11th–10th century BCE), [1] if it can be considered Hebrew at that early a ...

  4. Hebrew punctuation - Wikipedia

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    Colon and sof pasuq. Stemming from Biblical Hebrew, a sof pasuq ׃ ‎ is the equivalent of a period, and is used in some writings such as prayer books. Since a sof pasuq is absent from the Hebrew keyboard layout, and looks very similar to the colon : , a colon is often substituted for it. Glyph. Unicode.

  5. Hebrew language - Wikipedia

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    The word IVRIT ("Hebrew") written in modern Hebrew language (top) and in Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (bottom) Hebrew ( Hebrew alphabet: עִבְרִית ‎, ʿĪvrīt, pronounced [ ivˈʁit] ⓘ or [ ʕivˈriθ] ⓘ; Samaritan script: ࠏࠨࠁࠬࠓࠪࠉࠕ‎ ʿÎbrit; Paleo-Hebrew script: 𐤏𐤁𐤓𐤉𐤕‎) is a Northwest Semitic language ...

  6. History of the Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia

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    A page from a 16th-century Yiddish – Hebrew – Latin – German dictionary by Elijah Levita. The Hebrew alphabet is a script that the Aramaic alphabet was derived from 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 ...

  7. Niqqud - Wikipedia

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    In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikud ( Hebrew: נִקּוּד, Modern: nikúd, Tiberian: niqqūḏ, "dotting, pointing" or Hebrew: נְקֻדּוֹת, Modern: nekudót, Tiberian: nəquddōṯ, "dots") is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

  8. Modern Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    Modern Hebrew ( עִבְרִית חֲדָשָׁה ʿĪvrīt ḥadašá [ivˈʁit χadaˈʃa] ), also called Israeli Hebrew or simply Hebrew, is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. Developed as part of Hebrew's revival in the late 19th century and early 20th century, it is the official language of the State of Israel, and the ...

  9. Modern Hebrew grammar - Wikipedia

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    Modern Hebrew is characterized by an asymmetry between definite objects and indefinite objects. There is an accusative marker, et, only before a definite object (mostly a definite noun or personal name). Et-ha is currently undergoing fusion and reduction to become ta. [1]