BY THE AUTHOR SEBAST. MUNSTER.

it has a point at its head, even if that point is an indicator of another Vau, as in mitzvotekha your commandments instead of mitzvavotekha.

Accordingly, Iod is a consonant when some point is placed under it, or when it joins an Aleph with holem, or a Vau with holem or shureq, as in vayomer Yisrael and Israel said.

The guttural letters are assigned by the Hebrews as Aleph א, He ה, Heth ח, Ayin ע, because they require the office of the throat, just as others require teeth, others the tongue, and others the lips, and for this reason they are called dentals, linguals, and labials.

Furthermore, it should be known that Hebrews read the letter s in various ways. For Zain ז is a soft s; Samech ס is a sharp s; Zade צ is a strident s, or according to our Jews, z; Schin ש is a thick s, or sch. Sin שׂ, however, is read like Samech ס.

On Hebrew points.

A woodcut depicts a decorative initial letter 'A' featuring floral motifs. It should be noted that among the Hebrews, among the three kinds of points, there is one kind that...