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Found old notes on peshito.com's code format

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Found old notes on peshito.com's code format

Jan-18-2002 at 11:13 PM (UTC+3 Nineveh, Assyria)

Shlama l'Kulkhon,

I know everyone is not 'real wild' about the strange-looking code format on the peshito.com site with it's apostrophes and commas and combined upper and lower-case, etc., etc., but I found some notes I took when I asked the webmaster of peshito.com about this. The underline mark "_" is syame(plural points).
The apostrophes are 'Qushaya'(unaspirated or 'hard') consonants. The commas are 'Rukkakha' (aspirated or 'soft') consonants. While it's still not what you would call 'easy on the eyes,'
this might help some. I still don't understand why X=Q and I=P and ;=Y and Y=Teith and /=Tsade :P

Shlama w'Burkate,

Lawrence Raymond Kelsey

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1. RE: Found old notes on peshito.com's code format

Jan-20-2002 at 03:25 PM (UTC+3 Nineveh, Assyria)

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Shlama
From what I've managed to figure out, the reason is that the Lexicon on Peshito.com is based on a significant, monumental work called SEDRA3 by Dr George A. Kiraz, Ph.D. from
Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
https://www.BethMardutho.org
This work seems to have been based on a different font conversion than the Estrangelo (V1.1) we are used to. The SEDRA3 font conversion does not distinguish between final/normal characters, nor joined/non-joined, which makes it far easier to handle in a computer program.

Peshito.com have stuck rigidly to Dr Kiraz' work in this area, while this present site (atour.com/peshitta.org), whose lexicon is also based on SEDRA3, have gone to the trouble of converting the work across properly to suit the (English interface to the) Estrangelo V1.1 font.
The conversion, if I can get it to display properly, is as follows, ordered as Estrangelo character, SEDRA3 Conversion, Estrangelo (V1.1) conversion (the latter various possible forms separated by commas) .
0 A 0
b B b,B
g G g,G
d D d
h H h
w O w
z Z z
x K x,X
= Y =,+
y ; y,Y
k C k,K,<
l L l,L
m M m,M
n N n,N,J
s S s,S
9 E 9,(
p I p,P
c / c
q X q,Q
r R r
4 W 4,$
t T t

The lowercase characters used by SEDRA3/Peshito.com seem to be always vowels to indicate pronounciation.

Maran Atha
Howard Grimmer

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