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  1. A proposal for an alternative Colemak-Hebrew mapping.
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  3. Not included: most punctuation, diacritics, letters w/ dagesh or dot.
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  5. |Cmk|New|Old|Notes
  6. |---|---|---|-----------
  7. | Q | ק‎ |ק‎ קּ| Unchanged
  8. | W | ״‎ |ש‎ שׁ| Moved to S. One possibility is to use this space for the gershayim, and V for the geresh.
  9. | F | ו‎ |פ‎ ף‎| Moved from V. A more ergonomic position for the third-most frequent letter. Phoenician Waw gave rise to Latin FUVWY.
  10. | P |פ‎ ף‎|פּ‎ ףּ| Moved from F/loss of dagesh. Common ancestor: Phoenician Pe.
  11. | B | ב‎ |ב‎ בּ| Unchanged
  12. | J | |כּ‎ ךּ|
  13. | L | ל‎ |ל‎ לּ| Unchanged
  14. | U | ט‎ |ט‎ ‎ו| Unchanged
  15. | Y | | |
  16. | A | א‎ |א‎ אּ| Unchanged
  17. | R | ר‎ | ר | Unchanged
  18. | S | ש‎ |ס‎ שׂ| Moved from W. A more ergonomic position for a more common letter. Common ancestor: Phoenician Shin.
  19. | T | ת‎ |ת‎ ת| Unchanged
  20. | G |‎ ‎‎ג‎ |ג‎ גּ| Unchanged
  21. | M |מ‎ ם‎|מ‎ ם| Unchanged
  22. | N |נ‎ ן‎|נ‎ ן| Unchanged
  23. | E | ה‎ |ע‎ א| Moved from H. Puts the second-most frequent letter on the home row. Common ancestor: Phoenician He.
  24. | I | י‎ |י‎ יּ| Unchanged
  25. | O | ע | | Moved from E. Common ancestor: Phoenician Ayin.
  26. | 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.
  27. | C |צ‎ ץ‎|צ‎ ץ| Unchanged
  28. | D | ד‎ |ד‎ דּ| Unchanged
  29. | 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).
  30. | Z | ז‎ |ז‎ זּ| Unchanged
  31. | K |כ‎ ך‎|כ‎ ך| Unchanged
  32. | H | ח‎ |ה‎ הּ| Moved from X, to a more ergonomic position. Common ancestor: Phoenician Het.
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