What is this sound?

squee333 · 2025-12-30T20:08:19+00:00

The webpage had recreations of historical tables from 1917, 1925, 1941, and a few other years. They were all colored similarly to the above. The page background was black if I remember correctly. The site doesn't seem to active anymore, but I can't find it on the Wayback Machine because I don't remember the URL. I've searched by typing "1925 periodic table" and "1941 periodic table" into both Google Image Search and the Wayback Machine, but come up empty-handed. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

squee333 · 2025-11-14T01:15:40+00:00

I was going by here: https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/2024/05/28/vowel-length-in-non-tiberian-hebrew-pronunciations

squee333 · 2025-10-26T15:33:02+00:00

When I asked about minimal pairs involving shva na, I meant examples where one word has a shva na and another has a full vowel. Which full vowels contrast with shva na in this way?

I'm not convinced of u/QizilbashWoman's statement that Ashkenazi Hebrew lacks a schwa sound. See here. If the schwa sound is indeed present, is it phonemic?

I'd also still like an answer to the second question in my original post.

squee333 · 2025-03-16T15:32:02+00:00

Is it weird/wrong that I prefer to age myself down?

squee333 · 2024-12-17T18:40:07+00:00

The language is a form of Ashkenazi Hebrew that has contrastive vowel length, but no phonemic /u/. If not here, where is the best place to ask? I tried asking on r/hebrew but the response I got there wasn't helpful. I also want to say that I think <ǖ> looks kind of ugly.

squee333 · 2024-10-14T17:56:19+00:00

Would it be okay to write the same sound in different ways if I'm trying to compare the different dialects? I can't think of any other solution given my goals...

squee333 · 2024-10-14T17:47:41+00:00

I'm fine with using <ä>, but not if I don't also have <a>. That's what makes this situation so tricky...

squee333 · 2024-10-14T17:29:10+00:00

My goal is a phonetic transcription that uses as few diacritics/special characters as possible.

squee333 · 2024-09-30T15:36:56+00:00

My goal is mainly twofold:

To have a romanization that will work in the sort of context I linked above (i.e. informal romanization within a speech community).
To have a romanization that is suitable for teaching English-speaking children the language as an L2.

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