Verse:Tdūrzů/Hebrew: Difference between revisions

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Like in Tiberian Hebrew, Standard English Hebrew has long-short or tense-lax alternation, depending on whether the syllable is stressed OR open or not. However, loss of gemination has messed this up somewhat, and now unstressed patach and pretonic unstressed hiriq are always short or lax. Speakers of some English accents that do not make any tense-lax distinctions carry this over to their Hebrew pronunciations, thus all stressed syllables become long and all unstressed syllables become short.

The following mapping from Tiberian Hebrew vowels to English vowel phonemes has been described by Rabbi Yitskhác ben Mănakhấm (יצחק בן מנחם /jɪʔtsˈħaʔk bɛn mənaˈħɛɪm/) in his pronunciation guide ''Ha-Hagiyóh ha-Măcubéleth'' (ההגייה המקובלת [hahagiˈjoː haməʔkʊˈbɛlɛθ]) in the ~~13th~~ century and is still in use among English-speaking Jews:

The following mapping from Tiberian Hebrew vowels to English vowel phonemes has been described by Rabbi Yitskhác ben Mănakhấm (יצחק בן מנחם /jɪʔtsˈħaʔk bɛn mənaˈħɛɪm/) in his pronunciation guide ''Ha-Hagiyóh ha-Măcubéleth'' (ההגייה המקובלת [hahagiˈjoː haməʔkʊˈbɛlɛθ]) in the 18th century and is still in use among English-speaking Jews:

*patach = chataf patach = tense PALM /ɑː/ in stressed syllables / lax TRAP /a~æ/ in unstressed syllables. Usually transcribed ''a''.

*segol = chataf segol = DRESS /ɛ/. Usually transcribed ''e''.

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 Like in Tiberian Hebrew, Standard English Hebrew has long-short or tense-lax alternation, depending on whether the syllable is stressed OR open or not. However, loss of gemination has messed this up somewhat, and now unstressed patach and pretonic unstressed hiriq are always short or lax. Speakers of some English accents that do not make any tense-lax distinctions carry this over to their Hebrew pronunciations, thus all stressed syllables become long and all unstressed syllables become short.
-The following mapping from Tiberian Hebrew vowels to English vowel phonemes has been described by Rabbi Yitskhác ben Mănakhấm (יצחק בן מנחם /jɪʔtsˈħaʔk bɛn mənaˈħɛɪm/) in his pronunciation guide ''Ha-Hagiyóh ha-Măcubéleth'' (ההגייה המקובלת [hahagiˈjoː haməʔkʊˈbɛlɛθ]) in the 13th century and is still in use among English-speaking Jews:
+The following mapping from Tiberian Hebrew vowels to English vowel phonemes has been described by Rabbi Yitskhác ben Mănakhấm (יצחק בן מנחם /jɪʔtsˈħaʔk bɛn mənaˈħɛɪm/) in his pronunciation guide ''Ha-Hagiyóh ha-Măcubéleth'' (ההגייה המקובלת [hahagiˈjoː haməʔkʊˈbɛlɛθ]) in the 18th century and is still in use among English-speaking Jews:
 *patach = chataf patach = tense PALM /ɑː/ in stressed syllables / lax TRAP /a~æ/ in unstressed syllables. Usually transcribed ''a''.
 *segol = chataf segol = DRESS /ɛ/. Usually transcribed ''e''.