Yiddish-script transliterator
Type or paste Esperanto text and it appears in the Hebrew alphabet right away, written from right to left. With the options you can also type in the x-system (cx, gx, sx, ux …).
The letters
Every Esperanto letter has its own Hebrew letter; ĉ, ĝ and ĵ take two. Some letters merge: a and o (א), i and j (י), u and ŭ (ו), f and p (פ). The Hebrew alphabet has no upper and lower case.
- אa
- בb
- צc
- טשĉ
- דd
- עe
- פf
- גg
- שזĝ
- הh
- כĥ
- יi
- יj
- זשĵ
- קk
- לl
- מm
- נn
- אo
- פp
- רr
- סs
- שŝ
- טt
- וu
- וŭ
- װv
- זz
Word endings
At the end of a word m and n take their final forms (optionally c and ĥ too). In words ending in -as or -os (mostly verbs in the present and future tense), the a and the o get a vowel point, so that they can be told apart.
- ם-m
- ן-n
- אַס-as
- אָס-os
About the system
Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet with conventions of its own, such as the double vav (װ) for v and vowel points under the letter alef. This tool applies such conventions to Esperanto in a simple system of its own. It is not an official standard and does not follow the YIVO Yiddish orthography.
The result is written from right to left. As in the original version of this tool, the whole text is first converted to lower case; apart from that, non-Esperanto letters (e.g. é, ü, q, w, y), digits and punctuation stay unchanged. Text before the first Esperanto letter is dropped and the result ends with a line break, unless you choose the option “Keep the text as it is”. An apostrophe (') that marks elision (kor') belongs to the word, so the letter before it does not take its final form.
The Hebrew letters are shown in your device’s fonts; every common operating system has one.