As people wake up to the Commands, many gravitate toward old Hebrew for different reasons. As for me, I am a songwriter and writing music of praise in English is fine but the idea of writing in a language that Yahuah chose to transmit information to humanity through seems like one that may please Him.
There is a movement of reviving ancient Hebrew that rejects the modern Hebrew and now there are already several variants of ancient Hebrew being taught and spoken. The transliteration into English has its many variants as there are a vast amount of English speakers who are waking up to the Commands and an understanding of sharing heritage with the Hebrew people of old.
Take the the word שלום ("shalom" as transliterated from modern Hebrew understanding); I've seen this word transliterated with an "ancient Hebrew" designation using English letters into variants such as shalum, shalawam, shalowm, shalauam.
While many debate on what the best transliteration looks like depending on how they vocalize their understanding of the language, I propose something that can unify our transliteration using the English letters: a Hebrew-symbol-to-English-letter system or One-to-One system.
One English letter taking the VISUAL replacement of one ancient Hebrew symbol. (NOT NECESSARILY conveying phonetic/verbal expression)
When handwriting, one can use the ancient Hebrew letters. Why even bother with English letters? But when dealing with technological communication and keyboard sets, the ancient Hebrew isn't a mainstream keyboard widely available and this is where this system comes in handy while also dealing with the issue of the disparate transliterations which can lead to spelling errors and confusion as to which Hebrew word is being conveyed. This would serve as an alternative to the modern Hebrew keyboard sets taking representative place of the ancient Hebrew counterparts as well.
I will attach a picture with a better visual representation of this system but it is essentially a one-to-one notion. Consider the word I showed above: שלום. Yes, I am using the modern Hebrew because I don't have an ancient Hebrew keyboard but notice how there are four symbols making up this word? It is the same in the ancient Hebrew and yet we have these English transliterations (shalom, shalawam, shaloom) that have more than four characters and often try to convey phonetic sounds. With this proposed system instead of shalom, one may type wlum; ONE English letter for ONE Hebrew character.
Here is the key:
א - A
ב - B
ג - G
ד - D
ה - H
ו - U
ז - Z
ח - J
ט - T
י - Y
כ - K
ל - L
מ - M
נ - N
ס - S
ע - O
פ - P
צ - C
ק - Q
ר - R
ש - W
ת - X
With this system, one can type out a Hebrew word using the same English keyboard that most people have access to and accurately convey the Hebrew/Obry word they may be trying to express. Spelling of the Obry/עברי words can be conveyed using the English letters which can, in the long run, help people transcribe back into the Hebrew accurately and enable them to differentiate similarly transliterated Obry symbols such as an א from an ע. Instead of an argument of shaloom, shalowm, shalum there is simply a one-to-one understanding: wlum. Instead of Yahwah, Yahuah, Yahweh, Yahowah it would be YHUH.
Depending on the audience, one would have to express if they were using the one-to-one system going right-to-left or left-to-right but by default as English is left-to-right, I am typing these out from left-to-right so that ordinally, one would receive the Obry spelling correctly. I intend on using this moving forward in my transliteration of Obry words where it may help. Wbx wlum!
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