In the last pages of the text linked by Mark E. Shoulson, both the
gershayim and the aleph-umlaut are shown. A quick look didn't find any
other base letter with the combining umlaut.
My notes on Hebrew numbers on
http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/hebrew-numbers.html include:
"Using letters for numbers, there is the possibility of confusion as to whether
a string of letters is a word or a numerical value. Therefore, when numbers are
used with text, punctuation marks are added
Dear Mark,
I found another sample here:
https://www.marketscreener.com/BRILL-5240571/pdf/61308/Brill_Report.pdf
On page 86 it says that the aleph with diaresis is a number with
the value 1000.
See also the attached clipping.
A second source is the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon of
Noticed something really fascinating in an old pamphlet I was
reading. It's from 1922, in Hebrew mostly but with some Yiddish
at the end. The Yiddish spelling is not according to more modern
standardization, but seems to be significantly more faithful to
the
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