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Standard Modern Hebrew contains five vowel sounds, that are approximately equal to the vowels of Spanish. Any of these vowels may be combined with a y-sound, creating a diphthong:
- ah
- eh
- ee
- oh
- oo
The 24 (25 if you include the glottal stop) consonant sounds of Hebrew mostly have similar sounds in English, with a few exceptions:
- b
- ch (English ch sound, but only used in foreign words)
- d
- f
- hard g
- h
- j (foreign words only)
- k
- kh (guttural sound, similar to the German CH sound)
- l
- m
- n
- ng (only in foreign words)
- p
- r (Israeli Hebrew this is is a guttural sound, similar to the french r)
- s
- sh
- t
- ts (can appear at the beginning of a word)
- v
- w (only in a few foreign words, like Washington and shawarma)
- y
- z
- zh (like the french J, but only used in foreign words)
There are also 2 consonants only pronounced by Jews from Yemen and other middle Eastern countries. These consonants have no equivalent in English:
- Ayin (ע)
- Het (ח)
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