Babylonian vocalization

The Babylonian notation is no longer in use in any Jewish community, having been supplanted by the sublinear Tiberian vocalization.

However, the Babylonian pronunciation as reflected in that notation appears to be the ancestor of that used by Yemenite Jews.

[1] There is evidence that Babylonian Hebrew had emerged as a distinct dialect by the end of the 9th century.

[4] The first example of the Babylonian vocalization to become known to modern scholars was a codex of the Prophets discovered in 1839 at Chufut-Kale.

[11] In the simple system there are only eight types of pause, and they are denoted by small Hebrew letters written after the word, in much the same way as the punctuation of the Quran.