1842: Redundancy of כ/ך in Hebrew Dec 31, 2019

Along with the actually redundant letters, Hebrew has a few—like in English—which become redundant in certain contexts. For instance, כ, which also appears as ך at the ends of word can be just a plain [k]. However, it appears a [x]—like the Scottish 'loch'—after any vowel. In this way, the sound is not entirely redundant, but there are two other letters that represent those sounds respectively and exclusively, namely ק and ח. This is not unlike the situation with C, which could be replaced by either S or K in most situations, but also can be affected, sort of, morphologically, such as 'fanatiC' to 'fanatiCism'.

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