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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Biblical and Modern Hebrew language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
Since Modern Hebrew has different pronunciations in Israel, certain letters may be transcribed differently depending on the background of the speaker. See Biblical Hebrew phonology and Modern Hebrew phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Hebrew.
| BH | MH | Letter(s) | Romanization | English approximation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | ??? (Be? d?gu?ah) | b | bet | |
| d | ??? (Dale? d?gu?ah) | d | dark | |
| e | d | ?? (?ale? rafah) | BH: ? MH: d |
BH: this MH: dark |
| d?[1][2] | ??? (Gimel with geresh) | j | joy | |
| ? | f | ? ?? (Fei rafah) | BH: p? MH: f |
fool |
| ɡ | ??? (Gimel d?gu?ah) | g | go | |
| ? | ɡ | ?? (?imel rafah) | BH: ? MH: g |
BH: No English equivalent; Arabic Ghayn (????) MH: go |
| h | ?? (He), ??? (He mappiq) | h | hen | |
| ? | χ (?)[3] | ?? (?e?) | BH: ? MH: h or ch/kh |
BH: No English equivalent; Arabic ?ā? (???) MH: Scottish loch |
| j | ?? (Yo?) | y | yes | |
| k | ?? ??? (Kaf d?gu?ah) |
k | skin | |
| l | ?? (Lame?) | l | left | |
| ? | s | ??? (Sin semalith) | BH: ? MH: s |
BH: No English equivalent; Welsh llwyd MH: see |
| m | ? ?? (Mem) | m | man | |
| n | ? ?? (Nun) | n | no | |
| p | ??? (Pei d?gu?ah) | p | spin | |
| q | k | ?? (Qof) | BH: q MH: k |
BH: No English equivalent; Arabic qāf (????). MH: skin. |
| r | ? (r)[4] | ?? (Resh) | r | BH: trilled or tapped run. MH: French rouge |
| s | ?? (Samekh) | s | see | |
| s? | ts[1] | ? ?? (?adi) | BH: ? MH: ts/tz |
BH: No English equivalent; Arabic ?ād (??) MH: cats |
| ? | ??? (?in Yemanit) | BH: ? MH: sh |
she | |
| t | ??? (Taw) | t | sting | |
| t? | t | ?? (?e?) | BH: ? MH: t |
BH: No English equivalent; Arabic ?ā? (??) MH: sting |
| θ | ?? (?aw) | BH: ? MH: t |
BH: thing MH: sting | |
| t?[1] | ?? ??? (Tsade with geresh) | ch | chair | |
| β | v | ?? (Ve? rafah) |
BH: ? MH: v |
voice |
| w | v | ?? (Vav) | BH: w MH: v |
BH: would MH: voice |
| w[5] | ??? (double Vav) or ?? (single Vav) | w | we | |
| x | χ | ? ?? (?af rafah) | BH: ? MH: ch/kh |
Scottish loch |
| ???[6] (Heth with geresh) | kh | |||
| z | ?? (Zayin) | z | zoo | |
| ?[2] | ??? (Zayin with geresh) | zh | beige | |
| ? | ? (?)[3] | ?? (Ayin) | BH: ? MH: ' |
BH: No English equivalent; Arabic 'ayn (?) MH: uh-(?)oh |
| ? | ?? (Alef) |
BH: ? MH:' |
uh-(?)oh | |
| IPA | Usual pronunciation | Letter(s) | Romanisation | English |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e | d / z | ??? (Dalet with geresh) | dh | the |
| ? | ? / ɡ | ???[7] (Ayin with geresh) or ???[7] (Resh with geresh) | gh | No English equivalent; Arabic Ghayn (????) |
| ? | ?ɡ | ??? (Nun-Gimel) | ng | ring |
| θ | t / s | ???[8] (Tav with geresh) | th | thing |
| TH | MH | Letter(s) | Romanization | English approximation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| a |  (Patach),  (Hataf Patach)
|
TH: a, ? MH: a |
Scottish bath | |
| e? | ej (e)[9] | ?? (Tzere-Yodh), (Zeire)
|
TH: ē MH: e or ei/ey |
TH: Scottish bay MH: bay |
| e? | Scottish bay | |||
| ? |  (Segol),  (Hataf Segol)
|
TH: e, ? MH: e |
bed | |
| ? | e? (e)[9] |  (Shva)
|
TH: e/? MH: e or unwritten |
TH: comma MH: bed |
| ?[10] | TH: comma MH: silent | |||
| i |  (Hiriq)
|
i | see | |
| i? | i | ??(Hiriq-Yud)
|
TH: ī MH: i | |
| o? | o |  (Holam alone), ??? (with any mater lectionis)
|
TH: ō MH: o |
story |
| ? |  (Kamatz katan),  (Hataf Kamatz)
|
TH: o, ? MH: o |
TH: off MH: story | |
| ?? | a | (Kamatz)
|
TH: ā MH: a |
TH: off MH: Scottish bath |
| u |  (Kubutz)
|
u | cool | |
| u? | u | ??? (Vav with shuruk) | TH: ū MH: u | |
| IPA | Letter(s) | Romanization | English approximation |
|---|---|---|---|
| ao | ???? (Patach-Holam), ???? (Kamatz-Holam)
|
ao | cow |
| au | ???? (Patach-Shuruk), ???? (Kamatz-Shuruk)
|
au | |
| eu | ???? (Segol-Shuruk), ???? (Tzere-Shuruk)
|
eu | no (some dialects[11]) |
| ou | ?????? (Holam-Shuruk) | ou | goal |
| IPA | Explanation |
|---|---|
| ? | Primary stress (placed before the stressed syllable): ?????? ('food') /??oχel/, ???????? ('eating' [participle]) /?o?χel/ |
| ? | Secondary stress, e.g. ??????????? ('oh, really?') /?ha?um?nam/ |
| ? | Long vowels (in Tiberian Hebrew) can be transcribed using the IPA gemination sign ?: the word for "hand" would be ???? /j??e/ in absolute state and ????? /jae/ in construct state.[12] Indicating normative consonant gemination uses a double consonant: ???????? ('a thief') /ɡan?nav/ not /ɡa?n?av/ |
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c /d?, ts, t?/ are officially written with a tie-bar in the IPA /d??, t?s, t??/ respectively, but the tie-bar is here omitted for simplicity.
- ^ a b /d?/ and /?/ are sometimes confused by speakers who don't hear a distinction between them (mostly Russian and Arabic speakers).
- ^ a b In Modern Israeli Hebrew, /?, ?/ have merged with /χ, ?/ respectively, but are still distinguished by some Sephardi, Mizrahi and Arab speakers.
- ^ The sound is uvular for most speakers, but some speakers, mostly Sefardim, Mizrahim, Arab Israelis, Jews from the former USSR and Ethiopian Jews (in the 20th century also news broadcasters and singers) retain an alveolar pronunciation: [r]~[?].
- ^ Appears in new loanwords: ????? /wala/ "Wow!, really?, you don't say!, no kidding!". In some old loanwords that originally had /w/, it was approximated to /v/: ???? /vadi/ "Wadi".
- ^ Only appears in transliterations from Arabic script to transliterate the letter ?ā? (?)
- ^ a b Only appears in transliterations from Arabic script to transliterate the letter Ghayn (????).
- ^ ?? is sometimes used for both /e/ and /θ/ (in words from English) either by speakers who don't hear a distinction between them or as an equivalent to the Th digraph of English which is also used for both sounds.
- ^ a b Some conservative speakers pronounce it /e/ like in Sephardi Hebrew
- ^ Modern Hebrew typically elides shva in situations where it can be comfortably omitted in common speech, creating consonant clusters that would otherwise not be permitted in older varieties of Hebrew.
- ^ These dialects include Southern England (including Received Pronunciation), English Midlands, Australian, New Zealand, the Southern American, Midland American, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Western Pennsylvania and younger Californian English. Other dialects of English, such as most other forms of American, Northern England, Welsh, Scottish and Irish English, have no close equivalent vowel.
- ^ Vowel length and quality in Tiberian Hebrew is a matter of debate, and that is just one possible example.