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The Hebrew alphabet is used for Hebrew (Biblical and modern), Aramaic (Talmud and other sources), Yiddish, Ladino, and a number of other Jewish languages. Here is the Israeli Hebrew keyboard from Debian Linux.
The Hebrew alphabet is used for Hebrew (Biblical and modern), Aramaic (Talmud and other sources), Yiddish, Ladino, and a number of other Jewish languages. Here is the Israeli Hebrew keyboard from Debian Linux.


<pre>
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; 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - =
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פ ם ן ו ט א ר ק
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ף ך ל ח י ע כ ג ד ש
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. ץ ת צ מ נ ה ב ס ז
ז</pre>


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Biblical Hebrew uses a variety of vowel signs and other marks. Yiddish requires a number of extra letters, including the following.
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פ ם ן ו ט א ר ק


<pre>
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ף ך ל ח י ע כ ג ד ש
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אַ פֿ ײַ װ ױ ײ
</pre>


=Fonts=
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. ץ ת צ מ נ ה ב ס ז


Some Free TrueType and OpenType [[fonts]] provided with Linux distributions include Basic Hebrew (Letters, vowel points, Yiddish tsvey-vovn, vov-yod, tsvey-yodn). Some specialist fonts support Biblical Hebrew. Support for other Jewish languages is spotty. Rendering of pointed Hebrew and Yiddish is erratic in current software. Some non-Free fonts such as Code2000 and Everson Mono Unicode also support Basic Hebrew.
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Biblical Hebrew uses a variety of vowel signs and other marks. Yiddish requires a number of extra letters, including the following.


*Arial
*Courier New
*DejaVu
*FreeMono, FreeSans, FreeSerif


There are also PostScript Hebrew font packages.
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אַ פֿ ײַ װ ױ ײ

*Culmus. serif (Frank Ruehl), sans serif (Nachlieli) and monospaced (Miriam Mono) fonts. Also included are Aharoni, David, Drugulin, and Ellinia.
*Culmus Fancy. Anka, ComixNo2, Gan, Ozrad, Ktav Yad, Dorian and Gladia.

[[category:Languages (international)]]
[[Category:Fonts]]
[[Category:Keyboard]]

Latest revision as of 05:54, 17 December 2008

The Hebrew alphabet is used for Hebrew (Biblical and modern), Aramaic (Talmud and other sources), Yiddish, Ladino, and a number of other Jewish languages. Here is the Israeli Hebrew keyboard from Debian Linux. 

 ;  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  0  -  =
      פ  ם  ן  ו  ט  א  ר  ק
ף  ך  ל  ח  י  ע  כ  ג  ד  ש       
.  ץ  ת  צ  מ  נ  ה  ב  ס  ז        
ז

Biblical Hebrew uses a variety of vowel signs and other marks. Yiddish requires a number of extra letters, including the following. 

אַ  פֿ  ײַ  װ  ױ  ײ

Fonts

Some Free TrueType and OpenType fonts provided with Linux distributions include Basic Hebrew (Letters, vowel points, Yiddish tsvey-vovn, vov-yod, tsvey-yodn). Some specialist fonts support Biblical Hebrew. Support for other Jewish languages is spotty. Rendering of pointed Hebrew and Yiddish is erratic in current software. Some non-Free fonts such as Code2000 and Everson Mono Unicode also support Basic Hebrew.

  • Arial
  • Courier New
  • DejaVu
  • FreeMono, FreeSans, FreeSerif

There are also PostScript Hebrew font packages.

  • Culmus. serif (Frank Ruehl), sans serif (Nachlieli) and monospaced (Miriam Mono) fonts. Also included are Aharoni, David, Drugulin, and Ellinia.
  • Culmus Fancy. Anka, ComixNo2, Gan, Ozrad, Ktav Yad, Dorian and Gladia.
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