Vowels In Hebrew-A Comparative Study With The Arabic Language


Abstract in English

Knowing the vowels in the Hebrew language is one of the most important obstacles faced by learners of the Hebrew language, because of the complexity compared to their counterparts in the Arabic language. I have worked hard, in my research, on simplifying them, as far as possible, for the Arab recipients through comparing them to their counterparts in the Arabic language. This research may show us that most Vowels in Hebrew have similar counterparts in Arabic, but Arab linguist did not allocate an independent vowel for each case as Hebrew linguists did, which suggests to the neophyte that the number of the symbols of vowels in Hebrew is larger than the number of those in Arabic.

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