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עחהלם =
## Qwghlm
Letters of the modern Hebrew Alphabet:
| Name | Sound | Character | Final | Position | alef | /glottal stop/ | א | 1 | bet | /b or v/ | ב | 2 | gimel | /g/ | ג | 3 | dalet | /d/ | ד | 4 | he | /h/ | ה | 5 | vav | /v/ | ו | 6 | zayin | /z/ | ז | 7 | chet | /kh/1 | ח | 8 | tet | /t/ | ט | 9 | yod | /y/ | י | 10 | kaf | /k or kh/ | כ | ך | 11 | lamed | /l/ | ל | 12 | mem | /m/ | מ | ם | 13 | nun | /n/ | נ | ן | 14 | samech | /s/ | ס | 15 | ayin | /guttural2/ | ע | 16 | pe | /p or f/ | פ | ף | 17 | tsadi | /ts/ | צ | ץ | 18 | kof |
Notes 1. /kh/ here means IPA /x/, or the guttural sound in Scots loch. 2. Ayin is silent for many speakers, or pharyngeal like Arabic ain for those with more contact with Arabic.
The hard sounds /b k p/ are indicated by the dot called dagesh inside them, and the soft sounds /v kh f/ lack dagesh. Soft sounding letters are 'vet,' 'khaf' and 'fe' respectfully. The two sounds given for shin and "sin" are not predictable in the same way. The /sh/ value is much more common. They are distinguished in vowelled texts by the position of a dot above them. The /s/ sound is the same as that of the letter samech.
When teaching younger children; The lesson is that if the dot is on the left it's a "sin" which resolves most questions.
On charts of the Hebrew aleph-bet there are three positions of the letter "tav" as well.
I could see the sounds as a basis for a quasi-Phonecian seapeople alphabet mixed in with a proto-Finnish glyph writing peoples seeking tin in the good islands already populated by Basque Gaels and Welsh speaking Picts that become known as:
עחהלם
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