Italian Hebrew

Features

• beth rafe is pronounced ;
• he is often silent, as in the family name "Coen";
• vav is normally as in most Hebrew dialects, but can become in diphthongs. Thus, in construct masculine plurals with male singular possessive suffix יו-, the pronunciation is not - but [-;
• zayin is often pronounced like Italian [voiced "z";
• ayin is pronounced . In some dialects, like the Roman, this sometimes becomes, like the Italian combination "gn";
• final tav is pronounced ;
• speakers in communities south of the La Spezia isogloss, and Jewish communities transplanted north of this, pronounce dagesh forte as a true geminate sound, in keeping with the pronunciation of double letters in Italian.