Talk:Tsade/Archive 1

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did tsade ever have a phonetic value /ts/ 86.138.219.190 16:31, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes. "In modern Hebrew, tzade is pronounced as a voiceless alveolar affricate (IPA: /ʦ/)" СПУТНИК CCC  P 21:18, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Only in modern Hebrew. This is probably from German, where the letter z is sometimes pronounced as. But the original pronunciation was the same as it is in Arabic.

Ṣādē is the true pronunciation in Sephardic/Miḍhrahi Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic.
Tz is from Yiddish which affected Ashkenazi use of Hebrew.