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Tav or taw is the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and comes after shin. In Modern Israeli Hebrew, it is pronounced as the t in tomorrow. Its standard transliteration is t. At an earlier stage in the history of Hebrew, it had two pronunciations: a "hard" t as in tiger, and a "soft" or fricative th as in thimble. These pronunciations can be distinguished, in pointed texts, by the presence or absence of a dagesh. With dagesh, it is t; without, th.
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