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Kamatz or
qamatz (Modern Hebrew: קָמָץ, IPA: [kaˈmats];
alternatively קָמֶץ qāmeṣ) is a
Hebrew niqqud (vowel) sign
represented by two
perpendicular lines...
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qamatz, as does the ḥaṭaf pataḥ (Hebrew: חֲטַף פַּתַח IPA: [ħaˈtaf paˈtaħ], "reduced pataḥ"). The
reduced (or ḥaṭaf)
niqqud exist for pataḥ,
qamatz,...
- that also
occur in Yiddish. However, the
Qamatz Qaṭan vowel,
which is
visually indistinguishable from the
Qamatz Gadol vowel, is
rendered as /o/ in both...
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niqqud with א אַ אֶ אֵ אִ אָ אׇ אֹ אֻ אוּ name
patah segol tzere hiriq qamatz holam qubutz shuruq value /a/ /ɛ/ /e/ /i/ /ɔ/ /o/ /u/...
- disambiguation. As well, the
short o (
qamatz qaṭan) and long a (
qamatz) have the same niqqud. As a result, a
qamatz qaṭan is
usually promoted to
Holam male...
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Palestinian reflexes of
Tiberian /ɔ/ (/a/ and /o/) thus
reflect the
qamatz gadol-
qamatz qatan distinction. See אֳנִי /ɔ̆ˈni/ ('ships') אֲנִי /ăˈni/ ('I')...
- Hebrew: Even so, most
Palestinian m****cripts show
interchanges between qamatz and patah, and
between tzere and segol. Shva is
marked in
multiple ways...
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although they were
distinct in
Tiberian Hebrew, and pataḥ the same as
qamatz. To the
younger generation of
native Hebrew speakers,
these distinctions...
- word-final position, Hei is used to
indicate an a-vowel,
usually that of
qamatz ( ָ ), and in this
sense functions like Aleph, Vav, and Yud as a mater...
- word-final form,
which is
pronounced after the consonant, that
vowel being the
qamatz. In gematria, kaph
represents the
number 20. Its
final form
represents 500...
