Unlike English, where vowels are explicitly represented as letters (A, E, I, O, U) and are fundamental to every word, traditional Hebrew texts consist solely of consonants.

Hebrew vowels make their appearance through ‘nikkud’—a system of 16 different symbols representing 5 basic vowel sounds. These symbols are strategically placed around the letters to guide ...

And as such Jews writing Yiddish turned the ayin (ע) into an alternate marker for the segol vowel. In Arabic the vowel marking that represents U, Damma , looks like a variant of the Arabic letter ...

Ordinarily the Hebrew vowel signs are not headline material, but they made the front page of the newspaper Ha’aretz on June 4. The subject was a proposed spelling reform put forth by Dr ...

On January 21, 2018, Bible Scholar Nehemia Gordon and his team of researchers discovered the 1,000th Hebrew Bible manuscript containing the original name of God in Hebrew with vowels.

The word “schwa” comes from Hebrew. In Hebrew writing, “shva” is a vowel diacritic that can be written under letters to indicate an ‘eh’ sound (which is not the same as our schwa).

Haftorah with nekudot above and below the text. (Blur was digitally added above Hashem’s name in consultation with a posek to avoid question of sheimos.) A 16th century Yemenite manuscript of ...