Reading Hebrew

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====== Placement ======

Listed with preference to original pronunciation over modern, and categorized by their **primary** place of articulation, with double letters categorized in their weak aspirated form:

==== Group A — Throat (4) ====

//See [[gutturals]]//

[[glottal]] (**voiceless**: [[alef|ALEF]], [[heh]])

[[pharyngeal]] (**voiceless**: [[khet]], **voiced**: [[eyin]])

==== Group C — Palate (4) ====

[[uvular]] (**voiceless**: [[qof]])

[[velar]] (**voiceless**: [[kaf]], **voiced:** [[gimel]])

[[palatal]] (**voiced**: [[yod]])

==== Group E — Teeth/Gums (6) ====

[[postalveolar]] (**voiceless**: [[shin|SHIN]])

[[alveolar]] (**voiceless**: [[samek]], [[tsadi]], **voiced**: [[zeyin]], [[resh]], [[nun]]*)

* nun is sometimes classified as a post-[[dental]] (next group)

==== Group D — Tongue (4) ====

[[lateral]] (**voiced**: [[lamed]])

post-[[dental]] (**voiceless**: [[tet]] as /t/, [[tav]] as /θ/, **voiced**: [[dalet]] as /ð/)

==== Group B — Lips (4) ====

[[labiodental]] (**voiceless**: [[peh]] as /f/, **voiced**: [[bet]] as /v/)

[[labial]] (**voiced**: [[vav]] as /w/, [[mem|MEM]])