Wikipedia's first sentence called it “offshoot of biblical hebrew favored for languages such as ladino”. Today it says “pronunciation system for biblical hebrew favored for such as spanish and portuguese”.
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Sephardi Hebrew language is an offshoot of Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jewish practice.1Its phonology was influenced by contact languages such as Ladino , Portuguese , Dutch , Turkish and Arabic .2When Eliezer ben Yehuda drafted his Standard Hebrew language , he based it on Sephardi Hebrew, believing it to be most beautiful of the Hebrew dialects. However, the phonology of Modern Hebrew is further constrained to that of Ashkenazi Hebrew , including the elimination of pharyngeal articulation and the conversion of /r/ from an alveolar flap to a voiced uvular fricative . v t e v t e3
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Sephardi Hebrew is the pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jewish practice.Its phonology was influenced by contact languages such as Spanish , Ladino , Portuguese , Dutch and Arabic .
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Sephardi Hebrew (or Sepharadi Hebrew ) is the pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jewish practice. Its phonology was influenced by contact languages such as Spanish , Ladino , Arabic , Portuguese and Greek .
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Sephardi Hebrew (or Sepharadi Hebrew ) is the pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jewish practice. Its phonology was influenced by contact languages such as Spanish , Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino), Arabic , Portuguese and Modern Greek .
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Sephardic Jewish pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew Sephardi Hebrew (or Sepharadi Hebrew ; , ) is the pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jewish practice. Its phonology was influenced by contact languages such as Spanish , Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino), Arabic , Portuguese and Modern Greek .
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Sephardic Jewish pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew Sephardi Hebrew (or Sepharadi Hebrew ; Hebrew : עברית ספרדית , romanized : Ivrit Sefardit , Ladino : Ebreo de los Sefaradim ) is the pronunciation system for Biblical Hebrew favored for liturgical use by Sephardi Jews .Its phonology was influenced by contact languages such as Spanish and Portuguese , Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino), Judeo-Arabic dialects , and Modern Greek .
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offshoot of biblical hebrew favored for languages such as ladino
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pronunciation system for biblical hebrew favored for such as spanish and portuguese
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