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Niqqud
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Niqqud
In
Hebrew
orthography
,
niqqud
or
nikkud
( or ) is a system of
diacritical
signs used to represent
vowels
or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the
Hebrew alphabet
. Several such diacritical systems were developed in the
Early Middle Ages
. The most widespread system, and the only one still used to a significant degree today, was created by the
Masoretes
of
Tiberias
in the second half of the first millennium AD in the
Land of Israel
(see
Masoretic Text
,
Tiberian Hebrew
). Text written with niqqud is called
ktiv menuqad
.
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