Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet

Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet
likely that the original Hebrew alphabet did not waste
letters by duplicating sound or using them as silent.
4. Vowels - All of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet are
consonants. Some of these letters doubled as vowels
much like the "Y" in the Roman alphabet, which can be a
consonant as in the word “yellow”, or a vowel as in the
word "fly".
Meaning
The meaning of a letter is related to the picture 30 the form
of the letter represents. These meanings are then a part of
the meaning of the words, which use these letters.
1. The name of the letter - The name of the letter is a
Hebrew word with meaning and usually more than one.
For example the name of the letter is "peh" and can
mean mouth, speak, blow or edge.
Appendix "A" provides a detailed view of the
reconstruction of the pictographic, mnemonic, syllabic
and phonetic attributes of each Hebrew letter. Appendix
"D" is a detailed chart of the Modern and Ancient Hebrew
alphabet.
30 Giorgio Fano, The Origins and Nature of Language (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1992) 20.
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