The Syriac Dot: A Short History
Gorgias Press
ISBN13:
9781463241001
$64.36
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--
- | Author: George Anton Kiraz
- | Publisher: Gorgias Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 20, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 232 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1463241003
- | ISBN-13: 9781463241001
- Author:
- George Anton Kiraz
- Publisher:
- Gorgias Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 20, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 232 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1463241003
- ISBN-13:
- 9781463241001