Re: yet another romance conlang

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>         I really have to learn the Hebrew alphabet as I did with the Arabic one.
> Do you have a good URL to learn it (with pictures because I cannot install
> fonts on this shared computer :( )?
If you know Arabic script, then Hebrew script is dead easy.  You can see glyphs
at http://charts.unicode.org/
Unfortunately this site seems to be up and down these days, so keep trying.

Most of the character names should be recognizable.  You can ignore the
HEBREW ACCENT thisnthat characters, which are only used for marking up
the Bible to indicate how to chant it.  HEBREW POINT characters are the
vowel signs, which are used in full only in dictionaries, books for
foreigners, and the Bible.  Otherwise they are used only when necessary
to disambiguate.  YOD and VAV can also mean the vowels I and U.
A dot (DAGESH) in certain consonants indicates a spirant rather than
stop pronunciation.  SIN and SHIN are distinguished only by a dot above,
which is often omitted.

The only contextual variants are five final forms (for KAF, MEM, NUN, PE,
TSADI), which are given their own codes because they are sometimes avoided
in final position, particularly in Yiddish, in loanwords, and in abbreviations.

Hebrew uses the European digits, not the Arabic-style ones.

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