Patach
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| Script error: No such module "lang". | |
| <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />ַ | |
| IPA | Template:IPAblink or Template:IPAblink |
| Transliteration | a |
| English approximation | far |
| Same sound | qamatz |
| Example | |
| <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />גַּם | |
| The word for also in Hebrew, gam. The first and only vowel (under Gimel, the horizontal line) is a pataḥ. | |
| Other Niqqud | |
| Shwa · Hiriq · Tzere · Segol · Pataḥ · Kamatz · Holam · Dagesh · Mappiq · Shuruk · Kubutz · Rafe · Sin/Shin Dot | |
Pataḥ (Template:Langx Script error: No such module "lang"., Script error: No such module "IPA"., Biblical Hebrew: Script error: No such module "lang".) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign represented by a horizontal line Template:Angle bracket underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, it indicates the phoneme Template:IPAslink which is close to the "[a]" sound in the English word far and is transliterated as an a.
In Modern Hebrew, a Script error: No such module "lang". makes the same sound as a qamatz, as does the Script error: No such module "lang". (Template:Langx Script error: No such module "IPA"., "reduced Script error: No such module "lang"."). The reduced (or Script error: No such module "lang".) niqqud exist for Script error: No such module "lang"., Script error: No such module "lang"., and Script error: No such module "lang". which contain a Script error: No such module "lang". next to it.
In Yiddish orthography, a pataḥ (called pasekh in Yiddish) has two uses. The combination of pasekh with the letter aleph, Script error: No such module "Lang"., is used to represent the vowel [a]; the combination of pasekh with a digraph consisting of two yods, Script error: No such module "Lang"., is used to represent the diphthong [aj].
Pronunciation
The following table contains the pronunciation and transliteration of the different Script error: No such module "lang".s in reconstructed historical forms and dialects using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
The letters Bet Template:Angle bracket and Het Template:Angle bracket used in this table are only for demonstration, any letter can be used.
| Symbol | Name | Pronunciation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Israeli | Ashkenazi | Sephardi | Yemenite | Tiberian | Reconstructed | |||
| Mishnaic | Biblical | |||||||
| <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />בַ | Script error: No such module "lang". | Template:IPAblink | Template:IPAblink | Template:IPAblink | Template:IPAblink | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Script error: No such module "IPA". |
| <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />בַא, <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />בַה | Script error: No such module "lang". | Template:IPAblink | Template:IPAblink | Template:IPAblink | Template:IPAblink | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Script error: No such module "IPA". |
| <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />חֲ | Script error: No such module "lang". | Template:IPAblink | Template:IPAblink | Template:IPAblink | Template:IPAblink | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Script error: No such module "IPA". |
A Script error: No such module "lang". on a letter <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />ח, <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />ע, or <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />הּ (that is, <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />ה with a dot (mappiq) in it) at the end of a word is sounded before the letter, and not after. Thus, Script error: No such module "Lang". (Noah; properly transliterated as Script error: No such module "lang".) is pronounced Script error: No such module "IPA". in Modern Hebrew and Script error: No such module "IPA". or Script error: No such module "IPA". in Biblical Hebrew. This only occurs at the ends of words, only with pataḥ and only with these three letters. This is sometimes called a Script error: No such module "lang"., or "stolen" Script error: No such module "lang". (more formally, "furtive Script error: No such module "lang"."), since the sound "steals" an imaginary epenthetic consonant to make the extra syllable.
Vowel length comparison
By adding two vertical dots (shva) the vowel is made very short. However, these vowels lengths are not manifested in Modern Hebrew.
| Vowel comparison table | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vowel Length | IPA | Transliteration | English approximation | ||
| Long | Short | Very short | |||
| <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" /> ָ | <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" /> ַ | <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" /> ֲ | Template:IPAblink | a | spa |
| Script error: No such module "lang". | Script error: No such module "lang". | Reduced Script error: No such module "lang". | |||
Unicode encoding
| Glyph | Unicode | Name |
|---|---|---|
| <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" /> ַ | U+05B7 | PATAH |
| <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" /> ֲ | U+05B2 | HATAF PATAH |
See also
- Niqqud
- Qamatz
- Fathah, the related diacritic in Arabic
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