Elaine Keown
Tucson
Dear Mark and List:
I have even less of an idea than usual what on earth
you are all talking about, but....
Today I am working on the 6th set of Hebrew
diacritics. They are called 'Palestinian' and are
found exclusively in the Cairo Genizah material.
The 'Cairo Genizah' was a storeroom in a synagogue in
Old Cairo = Fustat which had about 600 years of
Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, etc. material.
In the Genizah they found some Hebrew manuscripts that
people thought were permanently lost--no one had seen
them since 100 C.E.
Since May I have preliminary proposals for all the
other Hebrew diacritics, but am waiting on the font
before passing along the URLS to those who are
interested.
Mark wrote:
>Even so, there's probably some language out there
>that requires some diacritics left in place on Hebrew
>letters (I don't know much about other languages
>written in Hebrew letters; Elain Keown knows that
>better). But this folding is *supposed* to lose data.
>Even in Hebrew, folding away all the vowels leaves
>something probably readable, but with
There's a good list of languages written in Hebrew on
my site---but I am still missing information on about
11 others:
http://www.lashonkodesh.org/hprelist.doc
SECTION D:
Variant letters for regional Jewish
languages written in square script,
�Rashi� etc (33)
16. Arabic(34) 6 4
17. Berber(35) 1 0
18. Persian(35) 3 0
19. Tajik(36) (Bukhari) 4 2
20. Tat(37) 3 2
21. Krimchak(38-39) 3 1
22. Neo-Aramaic(40,41) (Kurdit) 3 1
23. Greek(42) 3 1
24. French(43 7 3
25. Shuadit(44), Comtadin(45) 1 0
26. Italian(46) 6 1
27. Ladino(47) 4 2
28. Yiddish(48) 6 3
Net subset totals 20
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