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Re: yet another romance conlang

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, January 7, 2000, 18:31
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. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)