Editing Romanization of Hebrew (section)

== Additional transliteration principles ==

A further complication is that the Roman alphabet does not have as many letters for certain sounds found in the Hebrew alphabet, and sometimes no letter at all. Some romanizations resolve this problem using additional non-Tiberian principles:

* The two letters that represent a stop may be written using the forward and backward quote marks, or similar marks.
* Certain consonants are considered "emphatic" (the consonants {{script|Hebr|ט צ ק ח ע}}), due to being pronounced traditionally toward the back of the mouth. They may be transliterated distinctively by using an underdot.
* The letter "vav" ({{script|Hebr|ו}}) was once pronounced like English "w", in contrast to its current pronunciation identical to the letter "vet" (the soft letter {{script|Hebr|ב}}).
* The Karmeli transcription (see link at bottom of page) creates additional letters based on similar Hebrew or Cyrillic letters to represent the sounds that lack Roman letters.

Finally, for ease of reading it is common to apply certain principles foreign to Hebrew:
* Use a hyphen between common prefixes or suffixes and a romanized word.
* Capitalize the first letter of a proper name, but not its prefixes.