The Syriac Dot : a short history

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The Syriac Dot : a short history

George Anton Kiraz

Gorgias Press, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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The dot is used for everything in Syriac from tense to gender, number, and pronunciation, and unsurprisingly represents one of the biggest obstacles to learning the language. Using inscriptions, early grammars, and experiments with modern scribes, Dr. Kiraz peels back the evolution of the dot layer by layer to explain each of its uses in detail and to show how it adopted the wide range of uses it has today.

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