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Romanization of Hebrew>Transliteration

| English example

bed

| Same sound

tzere

| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |Other Niqqud

| colspan="2" style="width:250px;background:white;text-align:center;"|Shva{{Â·}}Hiriq{{Â·}}Tzere{{Â·}}Segol{{Â·}}Patach{{Â·}}Kamatz{{Â·}}Holam{{Â·}}Dagesh{{Â·}}Mappiq{{Â·}}Kubutz and Shuruk{{Â·}}Rafe{{Â·}}Sin/Shin Dot
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Segol (modern , {{IPA-he|seËˆÉ¡ol|IPA}}; formerly {{Script/Hebrew|×¡Ö°×’×•Ö¹×œ}}, sÉ™á¸¡Ã´l) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign that is represented by three dots forming an upside down equilateral triangle "Ö¶ ". As such, it resembles an upside down therefore sign (a because sign) underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, it indicates the phoneme {{IPAslink|eÌž|e}} which is similar to "e" in the English word sound in sell and is transliterated as an e.In Modern Hebrew, segol makes the same sound as tzere, as does the Hataf Segol ( {{IPA-he|Ä§aËˆtaf seËˆÉ¡ol|IPA}}, "Reduced Segol"). The reduced (or Ä§ataf) niqqud exist for segol, patah, and kamatz which contain a shva next to it.

Pronunciation

The following table contains the pronunciation and transliteration of the different segols in reconstructed historical forms and dialects using the (help:IPA|International Phonetic Alphabet).The letters Bet {{angle bracket|{{Script/Hebrew|×‘}}}} and Het {{angle bracket|{{Script/Hebrew|×—}}}} used in this table are only for demonstration; any letter can be used.{|class="wikitable"

! rowspan=3 | Symbol ! rowspan=3 | Name!! colspan=7 | (help:IPA|Pronunciation)

! Mishnaic !! Biblical

{{Script/Hebrew|×‘Ö¶}}|Segol

eÌž}}

[eÌž]

[a]

{{IPA

[É›]}}

{{Script/Hebrew

×‘Ö¶×”}} {{Script/Hebrew|×‘Ö¶×}}|Segol Male

eÌž}}

[eÌž]

[a]

{{IPA

[É›Ë, É›j]}}

{{Script/Hebrew|×—Ö±}}|Hataf Segol

eÌž}}

[eÌž]

[a]

{{IPA

[É›]}}

In addition, a letter with a segol or tzere with a succeeding yod often makes the "ei" (also spelled "ey") sound such as in they or tape.

Vowel length comparison

By adding two vertical dots (shva), the vowel can be made very short. However, the vowels lengths are not manifested in Modern Hebrew.{| class="wikitable"!! colspan=6 | Vowel comparison table

! Long! Short! Very Short

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| Tzere| Segol|Reduced Segol

Unicode encoding{| class"wikitable"

! Glyph! Unicode! Name|Ö¶|U+05B6|SEGOL

|Ö±|U+05B1|HATEF SEGOL

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