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IPA | pronounced as /link/ or pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
Transliteration | a | ||||||
English approximation | far | ||||||
Same sound | qamatz | ||||||
Example | - | - | The word for also in Hebrew, gam. The first and only vowel (under Gimel, the horizontal line) is a pataḥ. | ||||
Other Niqqud | |||||||
In Modern Hebrew, a makes the same sound as a qamatz, as does the (Hebrew: חֲטַף פַּתַח pronounced as /he/, "reduced "). The reduced (or ) niqqud exist for , , and which contain a next to it.
In Yiddish orthography, a pataḥ (called pasekh in Yiddish) has two uses. The combination of pasekh with the letter aleph, Yiddish: rtl=yes|אַ, is used to represent the vowel [a]; the combination of pasekh with a digraph consisting of two yods, Yiddish: rtl=yes|ײַ, is used to represent the diphthong [aj].
The following table contains the pronunciation and transliteration of the different s in reconstructed historical forms and dialects using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
The letters Bet and Het used in this table are only for demonstration, any letter can be used.
Symbol | Name | Pronunciation | ||||||
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Israeli | Ashkenazi | Sephardi | Yemenite | Tiberian | Reconstructed | |||
Biblical | ||||||||
pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /[a, aː]/ | pronounced as /[a]/ | pronounced as /[a]/ | ||
, | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /[aː]/ | pronounced as /[a]/ | pronounced as /[a]/ | |
pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /[ă]/ | pronounced as /[a]/ | pronounced as /[a]/ | ||
By adding two vertical dots (shva) the vowel is made very short. However, these vowels lengths are not manifested in Modern Hebrew.
Vowel comparison table | |||||
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Vowel Length | IPA | Transliteration | English approximation | ||
Long | Short | Very short | |||
pronounced as /link/ | a | spa | |||
Reduced |
Glyph | Unicode | Name | |
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U+05B7 | PATAH | ||
U+05B2 | HATAF PATAH |