Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 04/09/2003 20:14, Bearpecs AT aol.com wrote:

> I'm toying with using Keyman to build a customized Hebrew keyboard and am at 
> the point of deciding where to put the ta`amim (accents).  
>
> 1.  Are there any frequency studies of which accents occur more and which 
> less often?
Good question! And one which I have a tool available to answer 
immediately. Here in fact is a list of all the characters used in the 
Unicode edition of BHS which I have. (The tool generates also a list of 
up to ten references for each character, but I have omitted that to save 
space). Note that $ is used for puncta extraordinaria, N for inverted 
nun and Q and [...] to mark Qere, as a temporary matter in this edition. 
I know the frequencies of meteg, rafe and some other marks vary a lot 
from edition to edition.

Character       Count
[0020]  291515
[0024] $        53
[004E] N        3
[0051] Q        1150
[005B] [        1150
[005D] ]        1150
[0591] ֑        21464
[0592] ֒        618
[0593] ֓        46
[0594] ֔        25177
[0595] ֕        1647
[0596] ֖        38974
[0597] ֗        12527
[0598] ֘        211
[0599] ֙        14650
[059A] ֚        13637
[059B] ֛        7676
[059C] ֜        7019
[059E] ֞        1699
[059F] ֟        16
[05A0] ֠        1194
[05A1] ֡        934
[05A3] ֣        40906
[05A5] ֥        32754
[05A6] ֦        14
[05A7] ֧        3243
[05A8] ֨        8235
[05A9] ֩        1481
[05AA] ֪        245
[05AB] ֫        407
[05AC] ֬        181
[05AE] ֮        809
[05AF] ֯        1325
[05B0] ְ        149522
[05B1] ֱ        4458
[05B2] ֲ        25444
[05B3] ֳ        616
[05B4] ִ        108406
[05B5] ֵ        58789
[05B6] ֶ        75087
[05B7] ַ        116672
[05B8] ָ        151119
[05B9] ֹ        73494
[05BB] ֻ        4341
[05BC] ּ        169807
[05BD] ֽ        41079
[05BE] ־        42529
[05BF] ֿ        12
[05C0] ׀        1731
[05C1] ׁ        46062
[05C2] ׂ        12083
[05C3] ׃        23191
[05D0] א        95672
[05D1] ב        65207
[05D2] ג        10079
[05D3] ד        32368
[05D4] ה        101943
[05D5] ו        129584
[05D6] ז        9116
[05D7] ח        27589
[05D8] ט        6309
[05D9] י        137848
[05DA] ך        13944
[05DB] כ        33517
[05DC] ל        88284
[05DD] ם        41279
[05DE] מ        57637
[05DF] ן        15238
[05E0] נ        39845
[05E1] ס        9610
[05E2] ע        44802
[05E3] ף        2553
[05E4] פ        16909
[05E5] ץ        3285
[05E6] צ        11688
[05E7] ק        16276
[05E8] ר        68052
[05E9] ש        58189
[05EA] ת        63201


> 2.  Are there any frequency studies showing which accents occur most often 
> with individual letters?  individual vowel points?
With the same tool I was able to generate a list of base character and 
diacritic combinations with their frequencies and references. As it is 
quite a big file (432 KB zipped HTML) I will send it to you off list, 
together with the list of individual characters  and their references.

> Thanks very much.
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