Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Matanya Ophee <m.ophee AT orphee.com>]

At 03:06 PM 9/10/2005, yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com wrote:
> I would suggest using the following table:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet#Name_and_transliteration
>
> and using an up to date browser to view it so you see all the special symbols
> properly.


Thank you. I would have to study this in detail, but it seems that it 
would not serve my purpose. The audience for my publication is not 
academic, but rather a general public of professional singers who 
probably never even heard of the International Phonetic Alphabet. I 
will have to use, and if it does not exist, invent a transliteration 
that uses plain Latin characters. With diacritics if necessary.

I have done this recently for Russian, and the result does not look 
like anything you will see in the academic literature, but perfectly 
understandable for singers.


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