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- A proposal for an alternative Colemak-Hebrew mapping.
- Not included: most punctuation, diacritics, letters w/ dagesh or dot.
- |Cmk|New|Old|Notes
- |---|---|---|-----------
- | Q | ק |ק קּ| Unchanged
- | W | ״ |ש שׁ| Moved to S. One possibility is to use this space for the gershayim, and V for the geresh.
- | F | ו |פ ף| Moved from V. A more ergonomic position for the third-most frequent letter. Phoenician Waw gave rise to Latin FUVWY.
- | P |פ ף|פּ ףּ| Moved from F/loss of dagesh. Common ancestor: Phoenician Pe.
- | B | ב |ב בּ| Unchanged
- | J | |כּ ךּ|
- | L | ל |ל לּ| Unchanged
- | U | ט |ט ו| Unchanged
- | Y | | |
- | A | א |א אּ| Unchanged
- | R | ר | ר | Unchanged
- | S | ש |ס שׂ| Moved from W. A more ergonomic position for a more common letter. Common ancestor: Phoenician Shin.
- | T | ת |ת ת| Unchanged
- | G | ג |ג גּ| Unchanged
- | M |מ ם|מ ם| Unchanged
- | N |נ ן|נ ן| Unchanged
- | E | ה |ע א| Moved from H. Puts the second-most frequent letter on the home row. Common ancestor: Phoenician He.
- | I | י |י יּ| Unchanged
- | O | ע | | Moved from E. Common ancestor: Phoenician Ayin.
- | X | ס |ח ױ| Moved from S, to a less ergonomic position. Common ancestor: Phoenician Samek. Alternative is to place on C for better ergonomics and soft-C phonetic match.
- | C |צ ץ|צ ץ| Unchanged
- | D | ד |ד דּ| Unchanged
- | V | ׳ |ו וּ| Moved to F for better ergonomics. One possibility is to use this space for the geresh, and W for the gershayim (double geresh).
- | Z | ז |ז זּ| Unchanged
- | K |כ ך|כ ך| Unchanged
- | H | ח |ה הּ| Moved from X, to a more ergonomic position. Common ancestor: Phoenician Het.
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