Hebrew Alphabet
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<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph" title="Aleph" >Alef</a></b></th>
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<div dir="ltr"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_(letter)" title="Beth (letter)" class="mw-redirect" >Bet</a></b></div>
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<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimel" title="Gimel" >Gimel</a></b></th>
<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalet" title="Dalet" >Dalet</a></b></th>
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<div dir="ltr"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_(letter)" title="He (letter)" >He</a></b></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waw_(letter)" title="Waw (letter)" >Vav</a></b></div>
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<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zayin" title="Zayin" >Zayin</a></b></th>
<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heth" title="Heth" >Het</a></b></th>
<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teth" title="Teth" >Tet</a></b></th>
<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodh" title="Yodh" >Yod</a></b></th>
<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaph" title="Kaph" >Kaf</a></b></th>
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<td rowspan="2" >א</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ב</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ג</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ד</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ה</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ו</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ז</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ח</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ט</td>
<td rowspan="2" >י</td>
<td >כ</td>
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<td >ך</td>
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<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamedh" title="Lamedh" >Lamed</a></b></th>
<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mem" title="Mem" >Mem</a></b></th>
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<div dir="ltr"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nun_(letter)" title="Nun (letter)" >Nun</a></b></div>
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<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samekh" title="Samekh" >Samekh</a></b></th>
<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayin" title="Ayin" >Ayin</a></b></th>
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<div dir="ltr"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe_(letter)" title="Pe (letter)" >Pe</a></b></div>
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<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsade" title="Tsade" >Tsadi</a></b></th>
<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qoph" title="Qoph" >Qof</a></b></th>
<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resh" title="Resh" >Resh</a></b></th>
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<div dir="ltr"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_(letter)" title="Shin (letter)" >Shin</a></b></div>
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<th ><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taw" title="Taw" >Tav</a></b></th>
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<td rowspan="2" >ל</td>
<td >מ</td>
<td >נ</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ס</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ע</td>
<td >פ</td>
<td >צ</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ק</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ר</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ש</td>
<td rowspan="2" >ת</td>
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<td >ם</td>
<td >ן</td>
<td >ף</td>
<td >ץ</td>
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The <b>Hebrew alphabet</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language" >Hebrew</a>: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%91%D7%99%D7%AA" class="extiw" title="wikt:אלפבית" >אָלֶף־בֵּית</a> עִבְרִי<sup class="reference" id="ref_Common_Hebrew_Spelling" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet#endnote_Common_Hebrew_Spelling" >[a]</a></sup>, <i>alefbet ʿIvri</i>), known variously by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholars" title="Scholars" class="mw-redirect" >scholars</a> as the <b>Jewish script</b>, <b>square script</b>, <b>block script</b>, is used in the writing of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language" >Hebrew language</a>, as well as of other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_languages" title="Jewish languages" >Jewish languages</a>, most notably <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_language" title="Yiddish language" >Yiddish</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladino_language" title="Ladino language" class="mw-redirect" >Ladino</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Arabic_languages" title="Judeo-Arabic languages" >Judeo-Arabic</a>. There have been two script forms in use; the original old Hebrew script is known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_script" title="Paleo-Hebrew script" class="mw-redirect" >paleo-Hebrew script</a> (which has been largely preserved, in an altered form, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan_script" title="Samaritan script" class="mw-redirect" >Samaritan script</a>), while the present "square" form of the Hebrew alphabet is a stylized form of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_script" title="Aramaic script" class="mw-redirect" >Aramaic script</a>. Various "styles" (in current terms, "fonts") of representation of the letters exist. There is also a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_Hebrew" title="Cursive Hebrew" >cursive Hebrew</a> script, which has also varied over time and place.
The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. It does not have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case" title="Letter case" >case</a>, but five letters have different forms when used at the end of a word. Hebrew is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system#Directionality" title="Writing system" >written from right to left</a>. Originally, the alphabet was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad" title="Abjad" >abjad</a> consisting only of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonant" title="Consonant" >consonants</a>. As with other abjads, such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet" title="Arabic alphabet" >Arabic alphabet</a>, scribes later devised means of indicating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel" title="Vowel" >vowel</a>sounds by separate vowel points, known in Hebrew as <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niqqud" title="Niqqud" >niqqud</a></i>. In rabbinic Hebrew, the letters א ה ו י are also used as <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater_lectionis" title="Mater lectionis" >matres lectionis</a></i> (the use of certain consonants to indicate a vowel) to represent vowels. When used to write <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_language" title="Yiddish language" >Yiddish</a>, the writing system is a true alphabet (except for borrowed Hebrew words). In modern usage of the alphabet, as in the case of Yiddish (except that ע replaces ה) and to some extent modern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Hebrew" title="Israeli Hebrew" class="mw-redirect" >Israeli Hebrew</a>, vowels may be indicated. Today, the trend is toward <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktiv_hasar_niqqud" title="Ktiv hasar niqqud" >full spelling</a>with these letters acting as true vowels.
 
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