An Early Syriac Question Mark
Sentence-punctuation in manuscripts of the Syriac Peshitta Bible is not well understood. One punctuation mark, however, a vertical pair of points above a letter, known as zawgā ʿelāyā, can be made out with some confidence: it marks yes-or-no questions. This conclusion is demonstrated from a sampling...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2012
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Aramaic studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 193-213 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Syriac language
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/ Peshitta
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| Further subjects: | B
Syriac manuscripts
Peshitta
history of punctuation
question mark
Syriac grammar
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