Ijon added a comment.
Not quite, though it could accommodate the Hebrew case. For the record, in Hebrew spelling is quite standardized, but there are **two different orthographies** -- one with diacritics (making //matres lectionis// unnecessary) and one without (having more //matres lectionis// to convey vowel information in the absence of diacritics). In modern usage, //only// poetry and the Bible are written in the orthography with diacritics, whereas everything else (prose books, newspapers, scientific articles) are written in the orthography without diacritics. A couple of quick examples: the following words are all spelled with the exact same three letters, but the different diacritics combinations give distinctly different meanings: סֵפֶר (a book) סְפַר (a frontier/wilderness) סַפָּר (a hairdresser) סִפֵּר (he narrated) סֻפָּר (it was narrated) In the orthography without diacritics, these five would be rendered, in order: ספר ספר ספר סיפר סופר Note that the first three are //indistinguishable// in the non-diacriticized orthography, and can only be interpreted in context. Ideally, one would be able to give the base and inflected forms of each lexeme twice -- once with diacritics, and once without. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236593 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Ijon Cc: Ijon, daniel, Asaf, Mahir256, Danmichaelo, Fnielsen, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, Denny, Lydia_Pintscher, jeblad, jhsoby, darthmon_wmde, DannyS712, Nandana, Mringgaard, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Darkdadaah, Mbch331
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