Madison
Hi,
Only two people asked me what else exists
in the complete Hebrew character set, but
maybe others care.
The significant points here are that there are
other pointing systems to be combined with base
letters and that there are manuscripts that have
TWO pointing systems marked on EACH consonant,
sometimes two Hebrew ones, sometimes a Hebrew one
AND an Arabic one. And sometimes, in exotic Karaite
manuscripts, there are Arabic letters with Tiberian
pointing--there are some of these in England,
Cambridge U, I think--Elaine
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THE COMPLETE ARAMAIC / HEBREW CHARACTER SET
(PRELIMINARY--missing 11 Jewish dialects, 10 still
spoken)
Section A Ancient or common symbols
Net Count (subtracts "overlap")
original 22-letter alphabet 22
Epigraphic punctuation 4?
Epigraphic numbers 11
Ezra's points 2
Medial letters 5
Tiberian pointing, etc 52
Other Hebrew ms symbols __7_
TOTAL 100?
SECTION B VARIANT LETTERS FOR
REGIONAL JEWISH LANGUAGES
Arabic (=Judeo-Arabic) 4
Berber (=Judeo-Berber) 0
Persian (") 3
Tajik (=Bukhari) 2
Tat 2
Krimchak 1
Neo-Aramaic (=Kurdit) 1
Greek (written in Hebrew..) 1
French (written in Hebrew..) 3
Shuadit, Comtadin (Provencal
written in Hebrew) 0
italian 1
Ladino 2
Yiddish 3
Net subset totals 20
SECTION C BABYLONIAN POINTING ETC
BAbylonian 35
SECTION D PALESTINIAN POINTING ETC
Palestinian 18
SECTION E SAMARITAN POINTING ETC
SAMARITAN 12
Net subtotals C,D,E 65
SECTION F RARE OR UNIQUE SYMBOLS
Palmyrene dotted resh 1
Bodleian Hebrew e63 1
Cairo Codex 1
Total Aramaic / Hebrew to date 188 ?
I have the file with footnotes, but I don't know where--
packed somewhere....
