found beginning tenth century see ref scholars preserved pronunciation bibles known masoretes well preserved system developed one still religious use tiberian vocalization babylonian palestinian vocalizations also attested ref name b palestinian system preserved mainly piyyutim contain biblical quotations ref name b classification class wikitable floatright style text align center reflexes proto semitic consonants hebrew ref name bmerge ref ref name kogan ref rowspan proto semitic rowspan ipa rowspan hebrew rowspan
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