Discussion
Ask a question about 'Hiriq' Start a new discussion about 'Hiriq' Answer questions from other users |
| colspan="2" |
Hiriq
|-
| colspan="2" align="center" style="background:white;height:100px"|
ִ>
| IPA |
i |
| Transliteration Hebrew uses the Hebrew alphabet with optional vowel points. The romanization of Hebrew is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Hebrew words....
|
i |
| English example |
ski |
|
| colspan="2" |
Hiriq Example
|-
| colspan="2" align="center" style="background:white;height:50px"|
נִקּוּד
|-
| colspan="2" style="width:250px;background:white" | The word niqqud in HebrewHebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
. The first vowel (the dot underneath the letter) is a hiriq itself.>
|
| colspan="2" |Hiriq Male Example
|-
| colspan="2" align="center" style="background:white;height:50px"|תִּינוֹק
|-
| colspan="2" style="width:250px;background:white" | The word "baby" in HebrewHebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
with niqqud. Notice the additional YudYodh is the tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Yud , Syriac and Arabic...
"י".>
|
| colspan="2" |Other Niqqud>
Hiriq ( ˈχiʁik) is a HebrewThe Hebrew alphabet , known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script, block script, or more historically, the Assyrian script, is used in the writing of the Hebrew language, as well as other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. There have been two...
niqqud vowelIn phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language, such as English ah! or oh! , pronounced with an open vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure at any point above the glottis. This contrasts with consonants, such as English sh! , where there is a constriction or closure at some...
sign represented by a dot "" underneath the letter. In modern HebrewModern Hebrew , also known as Israeli Hebrew or Modern Israeli Hebrew, is the language spoken in Israel and in some Jewish communities worldwide, from the early 20th century to the present....
, it indicates the phonemeIn a language or dialect, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances....
i which is the same as the "ee" sound in deep and is transliteratedHebrew uses the Hebrew alphabet with optional vowel points. The romanization of Hebrew is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Hebrew words....
as a "i".
In Israeli writing a Hiriq is often promoted to Hiriq Male ( ˈχiʁik maˈle) for the sake of disambiguation (see ktiv maleKtiv hasar niqqud , are the rules for writing Hebrew without vowel pointers , often replacing them with matres lectionis . To avoid confusion, consonantal ו and י are doubled in the middle of words...
). A Hiriq Male is a YudYodh is the tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Yud , Syriac and Arabic...
preceded by a letter with a hiriq "" and in writing without niqqudKtiv hasar niqqud , are the rules for writing Hebrew without vowel pointers , often replacing them with matres lectionis . To avoid confusion, consonantal ו and י are doubled in the middle of words...
, the hiriq is omitted leaving only the Yud "". The usage of a consonant (in this case Yud) to indicate a vowel comes from mater lectionisIn the spelling of Hebrew and some other Semitic languages, matres lectionis , refers to the use of certain consonants to indicate a vowel. The letters that do this in Hebrew are aleph, he, waw and yod...
.
Pronunciation
The following table contains the pronunciationPronunciation refers to the way a word or a language is spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If one is said to have "correct pronunciation", then it refers to both within a particular dialect....
and transliterationTransliteration is a subset of the science of hermeneutics. It is a form of translation, and is the practice of converting a text from one script into another...
of the different Hiriqs in reconstructed historical forms and dialectThe term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...
s using the International Phonetic Alphabet. The pronunciation in IPA is above and the transliteration is below.
The letter Bet "ב" used in this table is only for demonstration. Any letter can be used.
| Symbol |
Name |
| | Pronunciation |
| | Israeli |
| | Ashkenazi Ashkenazi Hebrew , is the pronunciation system for Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Ashkenazi Jewish practice. Its phonology was influenced by languages with which it came into contact, such as Yiddish, German, and various Slavic languages...
|
| | Sephardi Sephardi Hebrew is the pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jewish practice...
|
| | Yemenite Yemenite Hebrew , also referred to as Temani Hebrew , is the pronunciation system for Biblical and liturgical Hebrew traditionally used by Yemenite Jews. Yemenite Jews brought their language to Israel through immigration. Their first organized immigration to the region began in 1882.It is believed...
|
| | Tiberian Tiberian Hebrew is the extinct canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh and related documents in the Roman Empire. This traditional medieval pronunciation was committed to writing by Masoretic scholars based in the Jewish community of Tiberias , in the form of the Tiberian vocalization...
|
| | Reconstructed |
| Mishnaic | Biblical |
|
Hiriq |
[i] |
[i] |
[i] |
? |
[i, iː] |
? |
? |
|
Hiriq Male
(Also called, Hiriq Yud) |
[i] |
[iː] |
[iː] |
? |
[iː] |
? |
? |
Vowel Length comparison
These vowels lengths are not manifested in Modern Hebrew. In addition, the short i is usually promoted to a long i in Israeli writing for the sake of disambiguation.
| | Vowel comparison table |
| | Vowel Length In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived duration of a vowel sound. Often the chroneme, or the "longness", acts like a consonant, and may etymologically be one, such as in Australian English. While not distinctive in most dialects of English, vowel length is an important phonemic factor in...
|
| | IPA |
| | Transliteration Transliteration is a subset of the science of hermeneutics. It is a form of translation, and is the practice of converting a text from one script into another...
|
| | English
example |
| Long |
Short |
Very Short |
| |
|
n/a |
[i] |
i |
ski |
Computer encoding
| Glyph |
Unicode |
Name |
|
U+05B4 |
HIRIQ |