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Contents 1 Romanizations 2 To be decided 3 Dialects and languages 4 Odd binyanim 5 Prefixes 6 Resources for Hebrew language and Hebrew script

[edit] Romanizations

Note: this is still up for discussion — see Wiktionary talk:About Hebrew#Romanization — and should not be regarded as policy.

• Wherever there is a link to a Hebrew entry, a romanization should be included.
• All romanizations should be wrapped in {{romanization of Hebrew}} (q.v.), which wraps its contents in parentheses. {{he-translation}}, {{he-link}}, and other such templates may use {{romanization of Hebrew}} internally.
• Missing romanizations should be indicated using {{romanization of Hebrew}} with no argument; in this case, it tags its article with Category:Entries missing romanizations of Hebrew.
• The letters are romanized as follows:

letter	romanization	notes
א	(')	omit word-final א, except optionally1	ל	l
ב	b/v	b when with dagesh, v when without	מ,ם	m
ג	g	optionally1 gh when without dagesh	נ,ן	n
ד	d	optionally1 dh when without dagesh	ס	s
ה	(h)	omit word-final ה, except when with mapik	ע	(')	optionally1 `; omit word-final '
ו	w	see below for ו as vowel marker	פ,ף	p/f	p when with dagesh, f when without
ז	z		צ,ץ	ts	optionally1 TS
ח	kh	optionally1 ḥ	ק	k	optionally1 Q
ט	t	optionally1 T	ר	r
י	y/i	i when the latter part of a diphthong, y elsewhere;    see below for י as vowel marker	שׁ	s(h)	sh when shin, s when sin
כ,ך	k/kh	k when with dagesh, kh when without	ת	t	optionally1 th when without dagesh

• ¹ used when it is particularly important to represent a form of Hebrew in which the sound is distinguished, or in the case of צ, a form in which emphatic consonants are emphasized (whether glottally or pharyngeally).
• Dagesh khazak is optionally (as described above) indicated by doubling the letter. In the case of שּׁ and צּ, this produces shsh and TSTS.
• Vowels are romanized as follows:

vowel	romanization	notes
בְ	(')	an apostrophe when na`, omitted when nakh or when adjacent to א or ע
בֱ, בֶ, בֵ	e
בֲ, בַ, בָי	a
בָ	a/o	a when gadol, o when katan
בֳ, בֹ, בוֹ	o
בִ, בִי	i
בֻ, בוּ	u

• The position of the stress may be indicated using an acute accent on the main vowel of the stressed syllable (á, é, í, ó, ú).

[edit] To be decided

• The contents of the above sections are still up for discussion, and should not be considered "decided".
• Where to use ktiv khaser and where to use ktiv maleh (e.g. for diber, where דבר, and where דיבר).^{[discuss this]}
• Where to supply vowel signs.^{[discuss this]}
• Whether roots warrant separate treatment from the words formed from them, and if so, what this treatment should include.^{[discuss this]}
• How to supply conjugations of verbs, declensions of nouns and adjectives, and pronoun-including forms of prepositions.^{[discuss this]}

Please discuss on the talk-page (Wiktionary talk:About Hebrew)!

[edit] Dialects and languages

The standard on English Wiktionary is to treat all of Hebrew as one language, including Biblical, Mishnaic, and modern Hebrew. All have the same categories, all have the same ==Language== headers, etc. The only exception is in Etymology sections, where to indicate derivation from Biblical Hebrew one can use {{etyl|hbo}}, and to indicate derivation from modern Israeli Hebrew one can use {{etyl|he-IL}}.

In Pronunciation sections, a modern Israeli pronunciation can be indicated by the use of {{a|IL}}.​—msh210℠ 19:47, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Odd binyanim

The binyan nitpa'el is to be treated as part of the binyan hitpa'el. For the past tense (which is where they differ in form), whichever is more common is to be written as a full entry, and the less common as an entry using {{alternative form of}}. But if the less common one has meanings different from those of the more common one, or if both are equally common, then both should be given full entries.

Binyan pilpel is considered merely a mishkal of pi'el.

[edit] Prefixes

The community's decision was to exclude most words that are simply one or more prefixes plus a base word.

[edit] Resources for Hebrew language and Hebrew script

• The language code is he: many templates use lang=he.
• The script code is Hebr: many templates use sc=Hebr.
• Automatically generated list of most Hebrew-language templates
• Automatically generated list of Hebrew-language new-page templates
• Automatically generated list of Hebrew-language and Hebrew-script appendices
• Hebrew-language index: not automatically updated; out of date (as of this writing); includes entries only
• Automatically generated list of Hebrew-script entries
• Hebrew-language category: includes entries, appendices, templates, etc.