How can I pronounce these letters in Hebrew ח,ע כּ
1)Is the letter ח pronounced like the Arabic ح(hard h) or خ(kh) ?
2 Is the letter ע pronounced like the Arabic ع or it's just a normal "a" ?
3)how the letter כּ is pronounced ?
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The letter ח is pronounced like خ and ע is just a normal a or i, depending on the vowel. In the old, original hebrew there were pronounced like the arabic letters, but in nowadays modern hebrew not anymore.Same as ק which originally was pronounced like arabic ق but now it's just a normal "k" sound.
כּ is just "k" , without the point it is also like the arabic خ.
Hope that helped
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Thanks Mark..actually these letters are pronounced like Arabic by Mizrahim (the Jews who came from Arabic-speaking countries) .....this site has helped me a lot :http://www.ulpan.net/hebrew-alphabet
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Just to add some information. I've listened to a comparatively famous Tanach chanting record, in which the letter ח is read as ح in Arabic, and ר as ر , and ע as ع , and ק as ق. I've read articles saying that in the begining the standardization of modern Hebrew pronunciation is like what I heard in the chanting, but today, Isreali Hebrew has turned to the easier way.
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