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Aleph?

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:48 am
by emiellucifuge
generally people say that hebrew has no vowels and therefore you can make them up for pronunciations sake, but this excludes the letter Aleph. its the first letter, meaning ox and equivalent to 1. in latin it is equivalent to the letter A, a vowel. some words use aleph as an a and some just leave it, this has confused me. when do you use aleph and why would you if there are no vowels?