in words of Semitic origin also ש ([s] or [ʃ]) into שﬞ [ʃ]. In words of Romance origin, [s] is spelled as ס, freeing up ש for the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ] without the need for a rafe to disambiguate. Note Ladino orthography is far less standardized than Yiddish; original Ladino works may be written in Rashi script (using rafe), Hebrew block print (using geresh), or in the Latin alphabet (e.g. the 1553 Ferrara Bible). Unicode "Hebrew Point Rafe" is encoded in the Unicode standard as U+05BF. See also Dagesh Hebrew alphabet Hebrew phonology Macron Mappiq Yiddish orthography References Niqqud