The most standard Hebrew (and Aramaic) transliteration method used in scholarly writing is Lambdin notation. This is required for writing in CMOS/Turabian format and also SBL… but transliteration fonts are hard to come by and expensive. This page will provide you with copy/paste text representing the siglae used in this popular notation.
CONSONANTAL VALUES
Hebrew | scholarly transliteration | phonic value |
א | ʾ | glottal stop |
בּ | b | b |
ב | ḇ | bh or v |
גּ | g | g |
ג | ḡ | gh |
דּ | d | d |
ד | ḏ | dh or soft th |
ה | h | h |
ו | w | w or v |
ז | z | z |
ח | ḥ | ch [Bach] |
ט | ṭ | t |
י | y | y or i |
כּ, ךּ | k | k |
כ, ך | ḵ | kh |
ל | l | l |
מ, ם | m | m |
נ, ן | n | n |
ס | s | s |
ע | ʿ | ng or silent |
פּ | p | p |
פ, ף | p̄ | ph or f |
צ, ץ | ṣ | ts |
ק | q | q or k |
ר | r | ʁ or r̃ |
שׂ | ś | s |
שׁ | š | sh |
תּ | t | t |
ת | ṯ | hard th |
VOCALIC VALUES
Hebrew | scholarly transliteration | phonic value |
ה ָ | â | tone long a |
ָ (a class) |
ā | long a |
ַ | a | short a |
ֲ | ă | half a |
י ֵ | ê | ey diphthong |
ה ֵ | eh | eh diphthong |
ֵ | ē | long e |
ֶ | e | short e |
ֱֲ | ĕ | half e |
ִי | î | long i |
ִ | i | short i |
וֹ | ô | tone long o |
ׂ | ō | long o |
ָ (o class) |
o | short o |
ֱֲֳ | ŏ | half o |
וּ | û | long u |
ֻ | u | short u |
ְ | superscript e (if vocal) |
shewa sound (ə) |
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