- meraḥef (שווא מרחף). When
discussing Tiberian pronunciation, some
shvas are
classified as
shva gaʻya (שווא געיה). The
following table summarizes four distinguishing...
- silent:
Shva was used both to
indicate lack of a
vowel (quiescent šwa,
shva naḥ) and as
another symbol to
represent the
phoneme /ă/ (mobile šwa,
shva naʻ)...
- /e/ in some
places where non-Oriental
speakers do not have a
vowel (the
shva na). A
limited number of
Oriental speakers, for
example elderly Yemenite...
-
Shva may
refer to:
Shva, a
Hebrew diacritic SHVA (Satellite Home
Viewer Act), a set of
regulations which govern the
transmissions of
television stations...
-
corresponding to
Tiberian dagesh and rafe,
though not used identically.
Shva quiescens (
shva nah) is unmarked. The
complex system may be
subdivided into perfect...
-
vowel may be long, short, or ultrashort. The
vowel "
shva" may be
sounded (
shva na) or
silent (
shva nach).
Consonants that have been used
historically to...
- (see qere perpetuum). ĕ is
hataf segol; ǝ is the
pronounced form of
plain shva. In the Dead Sea
Scrolls and
other Hebrew and
Aramaic texts the Tetragrammaton...
-
reduced (or ḥaṭaf)
niqqud exist for pataḥ, qamatz, and
segol which contain a
shva next to it. In
Yiddish orthography, a pataḥ (called
pasekh in Yiddish) has...
- Name
Symbol Israeli Hebrew IPA
Transliteration English example Shva [e̞] or ∅ apostrophe, e, or
silent met or
silent Reduced Segol [e̞] e met
Reduced Patach...
-
reduced (or ħataf)
niqqud exist for segol, patah, and
kamatz which contain a
shva next to it. The
following table contains the
pronunciation and transliteration...
