ʾa

aleph-a

(can be long or short)

i

aleph-i

(can be long or short)

u

aleph-u

(can be long or short)

b

g

Hard “g” as in “get”

d

d

th

“th” sound as in “this”

h

w

z

h

hh

h

ch

“ch” as in “loch”

t

hard, emphatic “t”

z

“zz”

sound of “s” in “measure”

y

k

l

m

n

s

s�

“su”

as in “Susanna”

ʿayin

like Hebrew ע

g

“gh”

Hardly distinguishable from hard “g”

“ghost”

p

s

“ts” sound

q

r

s

“sh” sound

Can correspond to Hebrew

t

t

th

as in “thin”