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Kamatz
'''Qamatz
ָ
IPA
Transliteration
English approximation
Same sound
Example
The word for fish in Hebrew, dag. The only vowel (the two perpendicular lines) is a qamatz.
Other Niqqud
Shwa Hiriq Zeire Segol Pataḥ Qamatz Holam Dagesh Mappiq Shuruk Kubutz Rafe Sin/Shin Dot
Qamatz is a Hebrew niqqud ( vowel) sign represented by two perpendicular lines (looking like an uppercase T) underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew (Sephardi/Israeli), it usually indicates the phoneme which is close to the " a" sound in the English word far and is transliterated as a and thus its sound is identical to the sound of in modern Hebrew. In some cases it indicates the phoneme , equal to the sound of .