Hebraisk Translitteration

A tool for transliterating liturgical Hebrew texts to Danish orthography. It is an augmentation of havarot.

About

Its purpose is to transliterate litrugical Hebrew into Danish orthography.

Funding for this module was graciously provided by Educating for Impact.

Install

npm

npm install github:taatik/hebraisk-translitteration

source

Download or clone this repository.

cd hebraisk-translitteration
npm install
npm run build

Example

JavaScript

const hebrewTransliteration = require("hebraisk-translitteration");
const Text = hebrewTransliteration.Text;
const heb = new Text("שָׁלֹום");
const transliteration = heb.transliterate();
transliteration;
// shalom

TypeScript

import { Text } from "hebraisk-translitteration";
const heb = new Text("שָׁלֹום");
const transliteration = heb.transliterate();
transliteration;
// shalom

Schema

Consonants

For consonants with slashes, the left hand side reprsents the unmarked (i.e. spirantized) form, and the right side is the marked form.

Consonant	Transliteration	Consonant	Transliteration
א		מ ם	m
ב	b/v	נ ן	n
ג	g	ס	s
ד	d	ע
ה	h	פ ף	p/f
ו	v	צ ץ	tz
ז	z	ק	k
ח	ch	ר	r
ט	t	שׂ	s
י	j	שׁ	sh
כ ך	k/ch	ת	t
ל	l

Vowels

Vowel	Transliteration	Vowel	Transliteration
◌ַ patakh	a	י◌ִ hireq yod	i
◌ַ furtive patakh	a	◌ָ qamets katan	å
◌ָ qamets	a	◌ֹ holem	å
ה◌ָ final qamets he	a	וֹ full holem	å
יו◌ָ three 3ms sufx	av	◌ֻ short qibbuts	u
◌ֶ segol	æ	◌ֻ long qibbuts	u
◌ֵ tsere	æ	וּ shureq	u
י◌ֵ tsere yod	æj	◌ֳ khatef qamets	a
י◌ֶ segol yod	æj	◌ֲ khatef patakh	a
◌ִ short hiriq	i	◌ֱ khatef segol	æ
◌ִ long hiriq	i	◌ְ vocal shewa	æe

Contributors

• Charlotte Lang
• Jair Melchior
• Karen Lisa Salamon
• Maja Sasson