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
Hebrew numerals + 300 + 60 + 7): To see how "today's" date in the Hebrew calendar is written, see, for example, Hebcal date converter. 5780 (2019–20) = תש״פ 5779 (2018–19) = תשע״ט 5772 (2011–12) = תשע״ב 5771 (2010–11) = תשע״א 5770 (2009–10) = תש״ע 5769 (2008–09) = תשס״ט 5761 (2000–01) = תשס״א 5760 (1999–00) = תש״ס The Abjad numerals are equivalent to the Hebrew numerals up to 400. The Greek numerals differ from the Hebrew ones from 90 upwards because in the Greek alphabet there is no equivalent for "Tsadi" (צ). Hebrew numerals The system of Hebrew numerals is a quasi-decimal