In Yiddish, ע represents the letter E, distinguishing it from א representing the letter A, though this is not done in Hebrew. ע is usually used only in native Hebrew words and for a vowel sound following an identical vowel sound. Generally, א is used for transliterations. א and ע are both 'silent letters' that can represent vowels.ש can also the Sh sound and is use for Sh. Generally, ס is used for transliterations. כ is used for a Ch pronounced like a K as in 'Christopher.' Generally, ק is used for transliterations of both C and K. ת is used when a Th makes a T sound as in 'Thomas.' Generally ט is used by default for transliterations. This is to eliminate confusion, as ב can also make a B sound, and ו can also be used for O, U, and W. Generally, ו is used at the beginning of words and ב elsewhere in words, though ו can be used for a V sound elsewhere in words. Note that several pairs of Hebrew letters sound alike. For vowels with ambiguous sounds, use the Hebrew letter that represents that vowel (e.g.For A followed by an L (as in 'fall') use ול (spelled פול).

For Oi as in 'coin' or Oy as in 'boy,' use וי (spelled as קוין, בוי).For Ou as in 'young' use א (spelled יאנג).For Ou as in 'mouse' or Ow as in 'how,' use או (spelled as מאוס, האו).For Au as in 'August' or Aw as in 'law,' use או (spelled as אוגוסט, לאו).For O as in 'mother' use א (spelled מאת׳ר).For I as in 'ride' use יי (spelled רייד).For E as in 'Megan' use יי (spelled מייגן).For E as in 'green,' use י (spelled as גרין).If the E sound starts the word, use א (as in Ed, spelled אד). For E as in 'bed,' do not use a letter (bed would be spelled בד).For A as in 'cake,' use יי (spelled as קייק).For A as in 'father,' park,' or 'what,' use א.For non-accented A-sounds (as in 'Canada,' which is spelled קנדה), omit א. For A as in 'apple', use א when at the beginning of a word or when strongly accented (as in 'Harry,' which is spelled הארי).Don't forget to bookmark this page.Know the rules for representing all the different vowel sounds, as follows: You can also check other important tools in many languages here: Learn Languages. Which explains why innacuracy can happen from time to time. Pure transcriptions are generally not possible, because Hebrew contains sounds and distinctions not found in English. Tradeoffs: For Hebrew, building a usable romanization involves tradeoffs between Hebrew and Latin characters. The International Phonetic Alphabet is the most common system of phonetic transcription.

Phonetic conversions attempts to depict all phones in Hebrew, sacrificing legibility if necessary by using characters or conventions not found in Latin. Transcription is the conversion of a representation of Hebrew into another representation of Hebrew, the same language just in a different form. Transliteration is the romanization attempts to transliterate the original script, the guiding principle is a one-to-one mapping of characters from Hebrew into the Latin script, with less emphasis on how the result sounds when pronounced according to English. Each romanization process has its own set of rules for pronunciation of the romanized words, which is the case with our Hebrew converter above. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and transcription, for representing the spoken word. Romanization (latinization) is the representation of a written word or spoken speech with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, where the original language uses different writing characters such as Hebrew. The tools makes an attempt to render the significant sounds (phonemes) of the Hebrew as faithfully as possible into English (Latin Characters). Romanization is intended to enable the casual reader who is not familiar with the original script to pronounce Hebrew reasonably accurately. In other words, you will be able to see how the words sound phonetically. How to Use: The tool above can be used to help you convert Hebrew characters into Latin characters. Important: You need to cleanup your generated Latin text here: Cleanup, to reduce the percentage of errors. You must enable JavaScript in your web browser.

English transliteration to hebrew