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24 July 2022
Kaph is a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, conventionally transliterated as k. It can be pronounced in a "hard" and a "soft" form. In pointed texts, a k which contains a dagesh is pronounced much like an English k, while without a dagesh it becomes something more like the ch of the German ich. In Modern Israeli Hebrew, the hard kaph sounds just like qoph, and the soft kaph sounds just like *ḥet.
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