עברית Hebrew

Orthography

אלף בית

• The Aleph Bet has 22 letters which all represent consonants.
• Vowels can be indicated with diacritics (pointing) or with the letters א ה י ו.
• Some letters have a different word-final form.
• Each letter has a printed and cursive version.

כ ך	י	ט	ח	ז	ו	ה	ד	ג	ב	א
/kaf/	/jud/	/tet/	/χet/	/ˈzain/	/vav/	/hej/	/ˈdaled/	/ˈɡimel/	/bet/	/ˈalef/
ת	ש	ר	ק	צ ץ	פ ף	ע	ס	נ ן	מ ם	ל
/taf/	/ʃin/	/rejʃ/	/kuf/	/ˈtsadik/	/pej/	/ain/	/ˈsameχ/	/nun/	/mem/	/ˈlamed/

Diacritics

Unicode

• Diacritics are from 591 to 5C7.
• The Aleph Bet starts with א at 5D0 through to ת at 5EA.
• Ligatures and punctuation from 5F0 to 5F4.

Keyboard Layout