Hebrew alphabet written from right to left. It has 22 letters, five of which use different forms at the end of a word. In the traditional form, vowels are indicated by the weak consonants Aleph (), He (), Vav (), or Yodh () serving as vowel letters, or "matres lectionis": the letter is combined with a previous vowel and becomes silent, or by imitation of such cases in the spelling of other forms. Also, a system of vowel points to indicate vowels (diacritics), called niqqud, was developed. In modern forms of the alphabet, as in the case of Yiddish and to some
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet third opinion was accepted by some early Jewish scholars, and rejected by others, partially because it was permitted to write the Torah in Greek. The Paleo-Hebrew script has been recently revived for specific use in several Sacred Name Bibles: including "Zikarown Say’fer", "The Besorah" and the "Halleluyah Scriptures". These translations use it for writing the Tetragrammaton and other divine names, incorporating these names written in this script in the midst of the English text. The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet was unified with the Phoenician alphabet and added to the Unicode Standard in July, 2006 with the release of version 5.0. The Unicode