Verse:Irta/Hebrew
Modern Hebrew (עברית חדשה, ivris chadosho), also known as Israeli Hebrew (עברית ישראלית ivris yisre'eilis)...
Phonology
Consonants
The Hebrew word for consonants is ‘itzurį́ (עיצורים). The following table lists the Hebrew consonants and their pronunciation in IPA transcription:
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Plosive | p b | t d | k ɡ | ʔ | ||||
| Affricate | ts | tʃ dʒ | ||||||
| Fricative | f v | s z | ʃ ʒ | χ | ʁ | h | ||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||||
Vowels
Israeli Hebrew has 6 oral vowels and just as many nasal vowels. Vowels tend to reduce in unstressed syllables.
| Phoneme | Example | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| /a/ | [ʔäˈdø̃] | אדון | 'lord, sir' |
| /ã/ | [ʔãˈtsi] | אמציא | 'I will invent' |
| /e/ | [ˈʔevẽ] | אבן | 'stone' |
| /ẽ/ | [ʔẽ] | אין | 'there is no' |
| /i/ | [ʔiʃ] | איש | 'man' |
| /ɪ̃/ | [ʔɪ̃] | אם | 'if' |
| /o/ | [ʔov] | אב | 'father' |
| /ɔ̃/ | [ʔɔ̃] | עם | 'people, nation' |
| /ø/ | [ʔøʁ] | אור | 'light' |
| /ø̃/ | [ʔosø̃] | אתון | 'she-donkey' |
| /u/ | [ʔäduˈmo] | אדומה | 'red' (f. sg.) |
| /ʊ̃/ | [ʔʊ̃ˈnɔ̃] | אומנם | 'indeed' |