1935 2 86 The validity of Vatblus' laws—that [quantity by] position is non-existent in Hebrew and that the ‘Shewa’ is non-vocalic—..is not our present concern.
1995 J. Drucker (1999) ii. 40 The practice of non-vocalic notation..remains common in the writing of modern Arabic and Hebrew, whose roots are consonantal in structure.