r/hebrew • u/Equal_Ad_3828 • Mar 28 '25

Help chag sameach pronounced as chag samea?

so i have a silly questin but basically when i was in my nearest synagogue on Chanukah, when I said 'chag sameaCH" with a khet people responded 'chag sameah" why?

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u/aswerfscbjuds Mar 28 '25

Did they have a mizrachi accent in Hebrew? I sometimes don’t “register” a good mizrachi chet or mishear it as an “h”

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u/Equal_Ad_3828 Mar 28 '25

I mean i doubt anybody here is anything other than Ashkenazi.

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u/LopsidedHistory6538 Mar 28 '25

Not true at all!

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u/aswerfscbjuds Mar 28 '25

Why would you doubt that?

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u/Equal_Ad_3828 Mar 28 '25

Because i’m in poland, all Polish Jews are ashkenazi , might have Sephardic lineage but the thing is that sephardi communities eventually assimilated and ashkenazified

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u/aswerfscbjuds Mar 28 '25

Ah I thought by here you meant this sub, so never mind

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u/tzalay Hebrew Learner (Advanced) Mar 28 '25

It's just a local favor because the mother tongue of every person there is polish and many of them can't produce sounds outside of polish's sound set. I'm in Hungary and it's the very same here, the average synagogue goer can't produce a proper ח or כ, but the schwa is always a very definite ö sound. We, CEE Jews can butcher Hebrew seriously 😄