Umschrift

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

about

This schema for transliteration was developed by Rabbi Zsolt. Its purpose is to transliterate litrugical Hebrew into German orthography.

install

npm

npm install umschrift

local

Download or clone this repository.

cd unschrift
npm install
npm run build

example

const umschrift = require("umschrift");
const Text = umschrift.Text;
const heb = new Text("שָׁלֹום");
const transliteration = heb.transliterate();
transliteration;
// schalom

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/w	נ ן	n
ג	g	ס	ss
ד	d	ע	-
ה	h	פ ף	p/v/f
ו	w	צ ץ	z
ז	s	ק	k
ח	ch	ר	r
ט	t	שׂ	ss
י	j	שׁ	sch
כ ך	k/ch	ת	t
ל	l

Vowels

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