#7, RE: Compendious
Posted by Paul Younan on Mar-20-2002 at 10:16 PM
In response to message #6
Shlama Khabri Yaqub,In that paper, on page 11, you will find the Serto vowel system on the table near the top of the page. As far as I understand, there are only 5 inverted Greek letters they use in that script to represent the vowel markings.
About the Arabic documents - if they are written in Arabic script it is possible that the language is actually Aramaic, but just written in Arabic script. This does occasionally happen - just like Aramaic written with Hebrew script.
Not knowing how to read the Arabic script, I wouldn't really know. But I do have uncles and cousins who grew up in Lebanon and could read it for me and let me know if it's Aramaic. Can you scan one and post it here?
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