Hebrew without vowels. The scroll does not contain vowels. ... Once you learn the alphabet, vowels and rules its simple to decode. Hebrew alphabet word chart. Photo courtesy Beth Kopin.

Because the original Hebrew alphabet was 'acrophonic' - meaning the naming of letters so that their name begins with the letter itself, and uses no vowels - it leaves a lot of room for ambiguity ...

The Latin alphabet then inherited the same system from Greek, where they became the vowels E and O respectively. Yiddish Brief A bissel of all things Yiddish: music, cooking, books and more.