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--- alef [2024/10/24 05:02] – jeffd
+++ alef [2024/10/27 08:40] (current) – jeffd
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 Classification: [[formative]], [[gutturals|guttural]], [[matres lectionis|mater lectionis]]
-Sequence: 1  /  Value: 1
+[[Sequence]]: 1  /  [[Value]]: 1
+[[Pictograph]]: The Ox / Bull / Living Animal
+Also seen as:  Aleph, Alif.
+\\\
+{{ :writing:alef-writing.png?nolink&150|}}
+{{ :proto:proto-alef.svg?nolink&200|}}
 Learned: [[Lesson 2]]
-Alef normally represents a [[glottal stop]], like the gap in the English word "ut-oh", and is essentially a silent letter.  Like all Hebrew consonants, it can carry a vowel with it.  For this reason, it is often used as a placeholder consonant at the beginning of words that otherwise start with a vowel sound.
+Name: <wrap :he>אָלֶף‎</wrap>
-{{ :writing:alef-writing.png?nolink&400|}}
+Alef normally represents a **glottal stop**, like the gap in the English word "ut-oh", and is essentially a silent letter.  Like all Hebrew consonants, it can carry a vowel with it.  For this reason, it is often used as a placeholder consonant at the beginning of words that otherwise start with a vowel sound.
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-[[aspirated]], [[mother letters]], [[quiescent]]
+[[aspirated]], [[voiceless]], [[mother letters]], [[quiescent]]