John, modern Hebrew usually does not use vowel points unless they are
necessary to avoid confusion, and even then, it tends to use "vowel letters"
(e.g. aleph for A, vav for O, yod for I, two yods for AY etc.). In something
like a phone book, there would be no reason for vowels. The same for shin
and sin.
However, in dictionaries, lexicons, concordances etc., the order seems to be
patah, qamats, segol, tsere and so on. Also, sin before shin. I write this
after flipping through a few dictionaries and a concordance, without having
an "official" source. I did leave a query in the Hebrew Language Academy's Q
and A email box - I'll let you know if I get an answer.
Yigal Levin
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