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The Syriac Dot : a short history /

"The diacritical point in Syriac is confusing at best. All students are aware of the dots on letters like resh and daleth the same way English readers are aware of the dots on letters like i and j, but most people do not know why they are there. In his new book, Dr. Kiraz peels back the story o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kiraz, George Anton (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Syriac, Modern
Language Notes:In English and Syriac.
Published: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2015.
Subjects:
Syriac language > Accents and accentuation.
Syriac language > Diacritics.
Table of Contents:
  • The first single dot
  • The first double dot
  • The power of the single dot
  • An intelligent dot
  • The Kenoro dotless experiment
  • The silent dot
  • The Shifting dot
  • A suffix dot
  • Tagging dots
  • Red dots
  • A pair of dots
  • Vowel dots
  • Punctuation dots
  • Reading dots
  • The net of dots
  • Ooops dots
  • Garshunography dots
  • Dots today
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1; Script guide
  • Appendix 2: KDE data
  • Appendix 3: Chronology of events
  • Appendix 4: Manuscripts consulted
  • Plates Appendix 5: Comments on plates.