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Shva
ְ
IPA Modern Hebrew: /e/ ([e̞]), Ø
Biblical Hebrew: /a/
Transliteration e, ' (apostrophe), nothing
English example men, menorah
Example
The word shva in Hebrew. The first vowel (under Shin, marked with red) is itself a shva.
Other Niqqud
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Shva or, in Biblical Hebrew, shĕwa (Hebrew: שְׁוָא) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign written as two vertical dots (ְ) beneath a letter. It indicates either the phoneme /ə/ (shva na', mobile shva) or the complete absence of a vowel (/Ø/) (shva naḥ, resting shva).

It is transliterated as ⟨e⟩, ⟨ĕ⟩, ⟨ə⟩, ' (apostrophe), or nothing. Note that use of ⟨ə⟩ for shva is questionable: transliterating Modern Hebrew shva naḥ with ⟨ə⟩ is misleading, since it is never actually pronounced [ə] – the vowel [ə] does not exist in Modern Standard Hebrew. Moreover, the vowel [ə] is probably not characteristic of earlier pronunciations such as Tiberian vocalization.

A shva sign in combination with the vowel diacritics patáẖ, segól and kamáts katán produces a ẖatáf: a diacritic for a tnuʿá ẖatufá (a 'reduced vowel' – lit. 'abducted').

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Shva

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indicates either the phoneme /ə/ (shva na', mobile shva) or the complete absence of a vowel (/Ø/) (shva naḥ, resting shva). It is transliterated as ⟨e⟩,...

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Modern Hebrew phonology

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/e/ in some places where non-Oriental speakers do not have a vowel (the shva na). A limited number of Oriental speakers, for example elderly Yemenite...

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Tiberian vocalization

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silent: Shva was used both to indicate lack of a vowel (quiescent šwa, shva nah) and as another symbol to represent the phoneme /ă/ (mobile šwa, shva na)...

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Niqqud

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Hebrew keyboard All shvas in the words "קִמַּטְתְּ" and "הִתְמוֹטַטְתְּ", also those marked under the letter tet ("Hebrew: ט"), are shva naḥ. Gonen, Einat;...

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Romanization of Hebrew

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vowel may be long, short, or ultrashort. The vowel "shva" may be sounded (shva na) or silent (shva nach). Consonants that have been used historically to...

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Babylonian vocalization

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corresponding to Tiberian dagesh and rafe, though not used identically. Shva quiescens (shva nah) is unmarked. The complex system may be subdivided into perfect...

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Segol

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reduced (or ħataf) niqqud exist for segol, patah, and kamatz which contain a shva next to it. The following table contains the pronunciation and transliteration...

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Ashvattha

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enlightenment is also of the same species. Adi Shankara derives it from shva (tomorrow) and stha (that which remains). Ashva (horse) and stha (situated)...

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Shva Salhoov

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Shva Salhoov (in Hebrew: שבא סלהוב; born in 1963) is an Israeli poet, essayist, writer and art critic. Salhoov was born in Kiryat Ekron in 1963, to Libyan...

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Kubutz and shuruk

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conjunction is shva na (וְ־ [və]), but before the labial consonants bet (ב), waw (ו), mem (מ) and pe (פ), and before any letter with shva (except yodh)...

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Rafe

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rafe, but utterly unrelated, is used to mark instances of "moving sheva" (Shva Na). The rafe is similar in function to the buailte (dot above, denoting...

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Schwa

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schwa was introduced by German linguists in the 19th century from the Hebrew shva (שְׁוָא IPA: [ʃva], classical pronunciation: shəwāʼ [ʃəwɔː]), the name of...

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Hebrew alphabet

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Name Symbol Israeli Hebrew IPA Transliteration English example Shva [e̞] or ∅ apostrophe, e, or silent met or silent Reduced Segol [e̞] e met Reduced Patach...

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Kamatz

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the rationale for its usage is different: it replaces the shva on letters which require a shva according to the grammar, but where the traditional pronunciation...

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Tiberian Hebrew

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(the dual quality of qameṣ (אָ) as /a/, /o/; the pronunciation of simple shva (אְ) as /ɛ̆/). The phonology of Tiberian Hebrew can be gleaned from the collation...

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Patach

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reduced (or ḥaṭaf) niqqud exist for pataḥ, qamatz, and segol which contain a shva next to it. In Yiddish orthography, a pataḥ (called pasekh in Yiddish) has...

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Georgian scripts

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in Ossetian and Abkhazian. It derives from the Greek letter Φ (phi). ჷ (shva "schwa"), also called yn, is used for the schwa sound in Svan and Mingrelian...

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Nebuchadnezzar II

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instead of צַּ‎, cf. note d. In Ezra 2:1. נְבוּכַדנֶאצַּר‎ – without the shva quiescens. In Jeremiah 28:3, and Ester 2:6. "Akkad" here refers to Babylonia...

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Sephardi Hebrew

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Name Shva Nach Shva Na Patach Hataf Patach Kamatz Gadol Kamatz Katan Hataf Kamatz Tzere, Tzere Male Segol Hataf Segol Hirik Hirik Male Holam, Holam Male...

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Tzere

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for details). In declension tzere sometimes changes to other vowels or to shva. The full rules for these changes were formulated the Academy of the Hebrew...

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Hebrew language

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téjša instead of Sephardic sifré and tésha) the partial elimination of vocal Shva < ְ ‎> (zmán instead of Sephardic zĕman) in popular speech, penultimate stress...

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Tetragrammaton

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(see qere perpetuum). ĕ is hataf segol; ǝ is the pronounced form of plain shva. In the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Hebrew and Aramaic texts the Tetragrammaton...

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Spanish and Portuguese Jews

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vowel before a shva. Also, the shvá nang in the beginning of a word is normally pronounced as a short eh (Shemang, berít, berakháh). Shva nang is also normally...

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Hiriq

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with niqqud, The main exception is the i vowel in a syllable that ends with shva naḥ. For example the words סִדְרָה (series) and סִדְּרָה (she organized)...

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Mishnaic Hebrew

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Name Shva Nach Shva Na Patach Hataf Patach Kamatz Gadol Kamatz Katan Hataf Kamatz Tzere, Tzere Male Segol Hataf Segol Hirik Hirik Male Holam, Holam Male...

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Shekel sign

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using AltGr+4. (⇧ Shift+4 makes the dollar sign and AltGr+A is used to type shva.) On most Unix heritage systems, it can be entered by holding down Ctrl+Shift+u...

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