Syriac Orthography (A Grammar of the Syriac Language, Volume 1) / / George Kiraz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kiraz, George,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents at a Glance --; Contents --; Preface --; Plates and Credits --; Transcription and Transliteration --; Abbreviations and Symbols --; Note on Examples --; Bibliography --; 1. Sources and their Historical Context --; I. The Graphemic Inventory --; 2. Consonantal Graphemes --; 3. Vowel Graphemes --; 4. Grammatical Graphemes --; 5. Editorial, Liturgical and Musical Graphemes --; 6. Ancient Prosodic Graphemes or Accents --; 7. Numbering Systems --; II. Graphotactics, Writing, and Ductus --; 8. Graphotactics --; 9. Writing --; 10. Ductus --; III. Garšūnography, Adaptation, and Alloglottography --; 11. Garšūnography I: Syriac as the Target Script --; 12. Garšūnography II: Syriac as the Source Language --; 13. Nongaršūnographic Adaptations of the Syriac Script --; 14. Alloglottography --; IV. Technological Developments --; 15. Lithography and Mimeography --; 16. Typewriters --; 17. Digital Typography --; 18. Coding Standards --; General Index --; Authority Index --; Biblical Citations --; CV Patterns --; Grammatical & Technical Terms --; Graph Index --; Manuscripts Index --; Word Index --; Quotations Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463235246; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463235246
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: George Kiraz.

This volume, the first in a comprehensive grammar of the Syriac language, is a thematic presentation of orthography in the Syriac grammatical tradition, bringing the study of Syriac writing closer to modern linguistic accounts of writing systems.