Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew): Difference between revisions

This page is designed to create an official policy regarding the translation of Hebrew and Israeli names and Hebrew transliteration for Wikipedia articles. The discussion is ongoing at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Hebrew).

General Rules

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These rules are based on the rules of the Academy of the Hebrew Language for transliteration[1], with a few deviations.

Hebrew	transliteration	notes
א (alef)	silent without a vowel	when following a vowel, prefix with an apostrophe (')
ב (bet)	B (with dagesh) or V (without dagesh)
ג (gimel)	G
ד (dalet)	D
ה (he)	H	unpronounced he at the end of a word is omitted
ו (vav)	V
ז (zayin)	Z
ח (het)	H
ט (tet)	T
י (yod)	Y	only when pronounced as a consonant
כ (kaf)	K (with dagesh) or KH (without dagesh)
ל (lamed)	L
מ (mem)	M
נ (nun)	N
ס (samekh)	S
ע (ayin)		same as alef
פ (pe)	P (with dagesh) or F (without dagesh)
צ (tsadi)	TZ
ק (kof)	K
ר (reish)	R
שׁ (shin)	SH
שׂ (sin)	S
ת (tav)	T

Hebrew	transliteration	notes
shva		always no vowel
patah, kamatz, hataf-patah	A
seggol, tzeirei, hataf-seggol	E
tzeirei male	EI
hirik, hirik male	I
holam, kamatz katan, hataf-kamatz	O
shuruk, kubbutz	U
dagesh ḥazaq		consonant is repeated

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 This page is designed to create an [[Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines|official policy]] regarding the translation of [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and [[Israel]]i names and [[Hebrew transliteration]] for Wikipedia articles. The discussion is ongoing at [[Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Hebrew)]].