The following table contains the
pronunciation and
transliteration of the different s in reconstructed historical forms and
dialects using the
International Phonetic Alphabet. The letters
Bet and
Het used in this table are only for demonstration, any letter can be used. A ''
on a letter , , or (that is, with a dot (mappiq) in it) at the end of a word is sounded before'' the letter, and not after. Thus, (
Noah; properly transliterated as '
) is pronounced in Modern Hebrew and or in Biblical Hebrew. This only occurs at the ends of words, only with pataḥ and only with these three letters. This is sometimes called a ', or "stolen" '''' (more formally, "furtive "), since the sound "steals" an imaginary
epenthetic consonant to make the extra syllable. ==Vowel length comparison==