• indicates either the phoneme /ə/ (shva na', mobile shva) or the complete absence of a vowel (/Ø/) (shva naḥ, resting shva). It is transliterated as ⟨e⟩,...
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  • Shva may refer to: Shva, a Hebrew diacritic SHVA (Satellite Home Viewer Act), a set of regulations which govern the transmissions of television stations...
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  • /e/ in some places where non-Oriental speakers do not have a vowel (the shva na). A limited number of Oriental speakers, for example elderly Yemenite...
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    silent: Shva was used both to indicate lack of a vowel (quiescent šwa, shva nah) and as another symbol to represent the phoneme /ă/ (mobile šwa, shva na)...
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  • Shva Salhoov (in Hebrew: שבא סלהוב; born in 1963) is an Israeli poet, essayist, writer and art critic. Salhoov was born in Kiryat Ekron in 1963, to Libyan...
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    vowel may be long, short, or ultrashort. The vowel "shva" may be sounded (shva na) or silent (shva nach). Consonants that have been used historically to...
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  • Hebrew keyboard All shvas in the words "קִמַּטְתְּ" and "הִתְמוֹטַטְתְּ", also those marked under the letter tet ("Hebrew: ט"), are shva naḥ. Gonen, Einat;...
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  • reduced (or ħataf) niqqud exist for segol, patah, and kamatz which contain a shva next to it. The following table contains the pronunciation and transliteration...
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    corresponding to Tiberian dagesh and rafe, though not used identically. Shva quiescens (shva nah) is unmarked. The complex system may be subdivided into perfect...
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    enlightenment is also of the same species. Adi Shankara derives it from shva (tomorrow) and stha (that which remains). Ashva (horse) and stha (situated)...
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