Hebrew Alphabet

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Hebrew numerals, Gematria, Mater lectionis, Romanization of Hebrew, Shva, Hebraization of English, History of the Hebrew alphabet, Tiberian vocalization, Holam, Mathers table, Kubutz and Shuruk, Hebrew punctuation, Zeire, Prefixes in Hebrew, Aleph, Geresh, Waw/Vav, Begadkefat, Cursive Hebrew, Shin, Unicode and HTML for the Hebrew alphabet, Inverted nun, Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, Ayin, Yodh, Kamatz, Hebrew spelling, Kaph, Suffixes in Hebrew, Gimel, Taw, Qoph, Hebrew Braille, Qere and Ketiv, Tsade, Dalet, Heth, Aljamiado, Mem, Segol, Patach, Rashi script, Meteg, Zayin, Teth, Hiriq, Samekh, Lamedh, Gershayim, ISO 259-3, Ashuri alphabet. Excerpt: The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew:, Alephbet 'Ivri), known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script, block script, or more historically, the Assyrian script, is used in the writing of the Hebrew language, as well as other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. There have been two script forms in use. The original old Hebrew script is known as the paleo-Hebrew script (which has been largely preserved, in an altered form, in the Samaritan script), while the present "square" form of the Hebrew alphabet is a stylized form of the Aramaic script. Various "styles" (in current terms, "fonts") of representation of the letters exist. There is also a cursive Hebrew script, which has also varied over time and place. The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters; five have different forms when they are used at the end of a word. Hebrew is written from right to left. Originally, the alphabet was an abjad consisting only of consonants. Like other abjads, such as the Arabic alphabet, means were later devised to indicate vowels by separate vowel points, known in Hebrew as niqqud. In rabbinic Hebrew, the letters are also used as matres lectionis to represent...