• indicates either the phoneme /ə/ (shva na', mobile shva) or the complete absence of a vowel (/Ø/) (shva naḥ, resting shva). It is transliterated as ⟨e⟩,...
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  • Shva may refer to: Shva, a Hebrew diacritic SHVA (Satellite Home Viewer Act), a set of regulations which govern the transmissions of television stations...
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    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)...
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  • /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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • the rationale for its usage is different: it replaces the shva on letters which require a shva according to the grammar, but where the traditional pronunciation...
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    corresponding to Tiberian dagesh and rafe, though not used identically. Shva quiescens (shva nah) is unmarked. The complex system may be subdivided into perfect...
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    is correct, which has a shva sign written as two vertical dots to denote short vowel. If a meteg were placed to the left of shva, it would be erroneous...
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  • Shva Salhoov (in Hebrew: שבא סלהוב; born in 1963) is an Israeli poet, essayist, writer and art critic. Salhoov was born in Kiryat Ekron in 1963, to Libyan...
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  • conjunctive (see below) that comes before ב, ו, מ, פ, or a letter with a ְ (Shva), and it does the ⟨ʔu⟩ sound. Vav in gematria represents the number six,...
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    enlightenment is also of the same species. Adi Shankara derives it from shva (tomorrow) and stha (that which remains). Ashva (horse) and stha (situated)...
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  • Cyrillic-based alphabets Ə, a letter used in some Latin-derived alphabets Shva or shĕwa, a Hebrew diacritic Look up schwa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary...
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  • conjunction is shva na (וְ־‎ [və]), but before the labial consonants bet (ב‎), vav (ו‎), mem (מ‎) and pe (פ‎), and before any letter with shva (except yodh)...
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    rafe, but utterly unrelated, is used to mark instances of "moving sheva" (Shva Na). The rafe is similar in function to the buailte (dot above, denoting...
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  • Name Shva Nach Shva Na Patach Hataf Patach Kamatz Gadol Kamatz Katan Hataf Kamatz Tzere, Tzere Male Segol Hataf Segol Hirik Hirik Male Holam, Holam Male...
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  • 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...
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  • In modern Hebrew, shva represents either /e/ or Ø, regardless of its traditional classification as shva naḥ (Hebrew: שווא נח) or shva na (Hebrew: שווא...
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  • for details). In declension tzere sometimes changes to other vowels or to shva. The full rules for these changes were formulated the Academy of the Hebrew...
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  • niqqud, The main exception is the "i" vowel in a syllable that ends with shva naḥ. For example the words סִדְרָה (series) and סִדְּרָה (she organized)...
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  • vowel before a shva. Also, the shvá nang in the beginning of a word is normally pronounced as a short eh (Shemang, berít, berakháh). Shva nang is also normally...
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    (the dual quality of qameṣ (אָ) as /a/, /o/; the pronunciation of simple shva (אְ) as /ɛ̆/). The phonology of Tiberian Hebrew can be gleaned from the collation...
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  • using AltGr+4. (⇧ Shift+4 makes the dollar sign and AltGr+A is used to type shva.) On most Unix heritage systems, it can be entered by holding down Ctrl+Shift+u...
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    of צַּ (ṣ)ṣa, in Ezra 2:1; נְבוּכַדנֶאצַּר, Nəḇūḵaḏneʾṣṣar – without the shva quiescens, in Jeremiah 28:3, and Ester 2:6. "Akkad" here refers to Babylonia...
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    in Ossetian and Abkhazian. It derives from the Greek letter Φ (phi). ჷ (shva "schwa"), also called yn, is used for the schwa sound in Svan and Mingrelian...
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    (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...
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  • mispronounced as the vowelization of a shva, the amen is termed an amen chatufa, as chatufa is synonym for the shva. Another type of amen chatufa is one...
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    téjša instead of Sephardic sifré and tésha) the partial elimination of vocal Shva < ְ ‎> (zmán instead of Sephardic zĕman) in popular speech, penultimate stress...
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  • 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...
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    in the leftmost letter (which is the letter He) is a mappiq. Other Niqqud Shva · Hiriq · Tzere · Segol · Patach · Kamatz · Holam · Dagesh · Mappiq · Shuruk ·...
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