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Transliteration is the process of moving text from one writing system or alphabet to another. The purpose of this site is to do that automatically for Hebrew text. There are many different alphabets in the world. Many languages, such as English, German, and Spanish use the Roman alphabet.
The romanization of Hebrew is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Hebrew words. For example, the Hebrew name spelled יִשְׂרָאֵל ("Israel") in the Hebrew alphabet can be romanized as Yisrael or Yiśrāʼēl in the Latin alphabet.
The transliteration of the Hebrew alphabet is complicated, particularly for the vowels. This keyboard don't concern the vowels without diacritics: a, e, i, o, u. The keyboard enables to type the Latin characters of the Iso 259 system. Instructions.
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Writing Hebrew words in the English alphabet is called "transliteration" and is as much an art as a science. For Hebrew consonants, the following transliteration scheme will be used: Hebrew Consonants Summary Page (PDF file)
You can also use this tool to type in Hebrew to automatically transliterate the consonants, however the vowels will not be transcribed unless it is one of the commonly transcribed words. Shortcuts: *(If there are multiple possible characters for a given Hebrew Letter, I marked my preferred in bold) (Name = Transliteration -> Shortcut):
The simple Hebrew transliteration system we present here is meant for general use. It is based loosely on the Encyclopaedia Judaica ‘General’ transliteration rules. In the table below, the dotted circle stands for any letter: it is used as a carrier for vowel signs in the ‘Hebrew’ column.
