You are holding an alphabet in your hands. This is one of the oldest languages of the world, and now one of the state languages of Israel. The Jewish tradition believes that with the help of letters of Hebrew, the Almighty created the world, and this was the first language in which he spoke Adam.
Of course, you drew attention to the fact that the book opens “not on the other side.” NOM is unusual, but in Hebrew they write and read from right to left. There are no capital letters in Hebrew. There are 27 letters in the ABC in the ABC: 22 ordinary and 5 “final”. The final letters (the so -called “Sofites”) are special letters -signs that are only at the end of the word. This was invented in those days when Jewish books wrote by hand and did not make passes between words. The final shape of the letter indicated where the word ends.
The letters in Hebrew are designated only by consonants. For vowels, there are special icons – vice. They appeared in the 9th century of our era, when Hebrew has already ceased to be spoken, and the correct sound of words became forgotten …
Editor
Streltsova E. M.
Publisher
Arca, 2017
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