15
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Alphabet
|{{hebrew|ח}}
|kh
|χ|This is a sound that English doesn't have. It sounds is a voiceless pharyngeal fricative. It is NOT like the ch in the German name Bach or in the Scottish word loch. It is the throat clearing guttural , but Europeans often use that soundas a substitute.
|-
|Tet
|{{hebrew|ט}}
|t
|t|Sounds like It was a t as in tetrispronounced with retracted tongue-root.
|-
|Yod
|kh
|x
|Sounds just like HetGerman 'ch' in Bach, Scottish Loch. It is velar, except that it isn't gutturalnot pharyngeal.
|-
|Khaf Final
|{{hebrew|ע}}
| -
|ʔ|It is a voiced version of {{hebrew|ח}}. A voiced pharyngeal fricative. It is not a glottal stop.
|-
|Pe
|tz
|ʦ
|Sounds like the zz in pizza. In antiquity it was 's' pronounced with retracted tongue-root.
|-
|Tsadi final
|{{hebrew|ק}}
|k
|k|Sounds like Kaf in modern Hebrew, but was originally pronounced with pressure in the throat ([q])retracted tongue root.|-
|Resh
|{{hebrew|ר}}
|r
|ɾ
|Sounds like the letter R, but is not pronounced exactly the same as in English. At the beginning or in the middle of a word it is slightly rolled so that its sound is somewhere between the English "R" and the Spanish rolled "R". The tongue bounces off the roof of the mouth just once. (The Ashkenazi and Israeli pronunciation is [ʁ]. A uvular trill.)
|-
|Shin
