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Sephardi Hebrew is not considered one of these, although it has been spoken in the Middle East and North Africa . The Sephardim were expellees from Spain , and settled among the Mizrahim, but in countries such as Syria and Morocco there was a fairly high degree of convergence between the Sephardi and the local pronunciations of Hebrew. Yemenite Hebrew is also considered quite separate, as it has a wholly different system for the pronunciation of the vowels. The same terms are sometimes used for the pronunciation of modern Israeli Hebrew by Jews of Arab or other Mizrahi origins. This is generally a compromise between standard Israeli Hebrew and the traditional liturgical pronunciation as described in this article. FEATURES The following features are generally found in the pronunciation of Jews from Arabic -speaking countries, and the variations tend to follow the Arabic dialect of the country in question.
The pronunciation of Mizrahi Jews from non-Arab countries differs in some respects. For example, among Persian Jews distinctively Arabic sounds such as ح and ط do not occur, and Kamats Gadol is backed to (the sound in English "awe") like the long ''a'' in Persian . BIBLIOGRAPHY
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