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 ...

Hebrew is a fascinating language, and a very difficult one. The alphabet is comprised of 22 letters, but five of those letters have two different forms: the normal form that appears in the middle of a ...

A dozen new letters. Hebrew has 22 letters and five vowels. To that Shomer’s aleph bet adds 11 consonants and one vowel. The new letters may look quizzical to some, ...

Is Hebrew the world's first alphabet? Israelites in Egypt may have turned hieroglyphs into letters 3,800 years ago. Dr Douglas Petrovich looked at 16 Hebrew letters from Egyptian tablets ...