Aramaic Vowels

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Aramaic Vowels

• For those who have learned or are learning
  Hebrew, a few points
• Aramaic has the same vowels, but words shared by
  Hebrew and Aramaic are often pointed differently
  in Aramaic. Well hit the explanations for this
  later.
• Aramaic has the same compound shewas as Hebrew,
  but the compound shewas can go under other
  letters besides gutturals in Aramaic (Hebrew uses
  them only under gutturals).

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Vowel name qamets ?sound a as in
fathertransliteration a
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Vowel name patach ?sound a as in
cat transliteration a
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Vowel name chatef-patach ?sound a as in
cat alsobasically indistinguishable from
patach transliteration a? (superscripted)
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Vowel name seghol ?sound e as in
bet transliteration e
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Vowel name tsere ?sound ey as in
grey transliteration e
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Vowel name chatef-seghol ?sound e as
in bet basically indistinguishable from
seghol transliteration e? (superscripted)
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Vowel name chireq ?sound i as in
hit transliteration i
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Vowel name chireq-yodh ??sound long i
(ee) as in machine transliteration i
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Vowel name cholem sound o as in
hole transliteration o
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Vowel name cholem-wawsound o as in
hole transliteration o
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Vowel name qibbuts ?sound u as in
hut transliteration u
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Vowel name shureqsound long u as in
mule transliteration u
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Vowel name qamets-chatuf ?sound o as
in oddsame sign as qamets (a)
transliteration o
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Vowel name chatef-qamets ? sound o
as in oddindistinguishable from
qamets-chatuf transliteration o?
(superscripted)
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VOWEL CHART
From Mark Futato, Beginning Hebrew