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| | Hebrew language - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article |
 | | Although the original Aramaic letter forms were derived from the same Phoenician alphabet that was used in ancient Israel, they had changed significantly, both in the hands of the Mesopotamians and of the Jews, assuming the forms familiar to us today around the first century CE. |
| | Although a single letter might represent two phonemes — the letter "bet," for example, represents both /b/ and /v/ —; the two sounds are always related "hard" (plosive) and "soft" (fricative) forms, their pronunciaton being very often determined by context. |
| | The letter he (ה) at the end of a word, in those cases where it marks feminine gender, is transcribed by "ah" (it is read /a/). |
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