The Syriac Dot : : A Short History / / George Kiraz.

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...

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Table of Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Script and Transcription --   |t 1. The First Single Dot --   |t 2. The First Double Dot --   |t 3. The Power of the Single Dot --   |t 4. An Intelligent Dot --   |t 5. The Kenoro Dotless Experiment --   |t 6. The Silent Dot --   |t 7. The Shifting Dot --   |t 8. A Suffix Dot --   |t 9. Tagging Dots --   |t 10. Red Dots --   |t 11. A Pair of Dots --   |t 12. Vowel Dots --   |t 13. Punctuation Dots --   |t 14. Reading Dots --   |t 15. The Net of Dots --   |t 16. Oops Dots --   |t 17. Garshunography Dots --   |t 18. Dots Today --   |t 19. Epilogue --   |t Appendix 1: Script Guide --   |t Appendix 2: KDE Data --   |t Appendix 3: Chronology of Events --   |t Appendix 4: Manuscripts Consulted --   |t Plates --   |t Appendix 5: Comments on Plates --   |t Notes --   |t Works Cited --   |t Word Index --   |t General Index --   |t Reader's Notes 
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