Hebrew Dialects | Word Comparison 

Disclaimer! Finding information about Samaritan Hebrew is really really hard. There are bound to be mistakes in it here, so take everything with a grain of salt. Some information regarding the scripts I used: Early Biblical Hebrew - I used the Paleo-Hebrew script, as it was the one used in the era it was spoken. Samaritan Hebrew - I used the Samaritan script, which is used today by the Samaritans, and evolved from the Paleo-Hebrew script. Late Biblical Hebrew - I define "late" as being spoken after the Babylonian exile, when Hebrew changed dramatically: a. Biblical Hebrew split into Early Samaritan and Late Biblical Hebrew. b. Late Biblical Hebrew developed the distinction between the Beged Kefet letters, under Aramaic influence. c. Late Biblical Hebrew adopted the Aramaic script instead of the late Paleo-Hebrew script. For Late Biblical Hebrew I used the Aramaic alphabet found in the dead sea scrolls. Mishnaic Hebrew - I used the Guttman Vilna script in which Mishnas and Gemaras are usually printed today. Tiberian Hebrew - The Hebrew of the Galilee in the 7th-10th centuries. The sages of Tiberias invented the Niqqud used today and the system for writing cantillation, and thus I used the Ktav Stam that used in the Tanakh for it. Medieval Hebrew dialects - I planned on using the square script of the Tanakh for them as well, but ended up doing it only for Yemenite and Ashkenazi. For Sephardi, I used the Rashi script, since it is common and Sephardic in origin. Modern Hebrew - in the internet and documents it is usually written with the square script, but I used the cursive one to give it representation.

The segholates shouldn't be opened yet in the LBH words and definitely not in the EBH words. Even as late as the Secunda of Origen's Hexapla (around 240 AD), they still have the form qVtl. For instance, the word ארץ appears in the Secunda as αρς, reflecting a pronunciation like [ʔaʀʦˀ], and גבר appears as γαβρ, reflecting a pronunciation like [ˈgaβʀ]. See Benjamin Kantor's 2017 dissertation (or his recent work "The Linguistic Classification of the Reading Traditions of Biblical Hebrew") for more.

How about Ashkenaziz Haredi Accent? The read Qamatz with ū, not ō.

Late Biblical Hebrew is similar to modern

What script are the late biblical hebrew words written in?

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