TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kiraz,George
TI  - Syriac Orthography (A Grammar of the Syriac Language, Volume 1)
SN  - 9781463201838
AV  - PJ5423 .K57 2012
U1  - 492/.35 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - Syriac language
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Orthography and spelling
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents at a Glance --; Contents --; Preface --; Plates and Credits --; Transcription and Transliteration --; Abbreviations and Symbols --; Note on Examples --; Abbreviations and Symbols --; Bibliography --; 1. Sources and their Historical Context --; I. The Graphemic Inventory --; 2. Consonantal Graphemes --; 3. Vowel Graphemes --; 4. Grammatical Graphemes --; 5. Editorial, Liturgical and Musical Graphemes --; 6. Ancient Prosodic Graphemes or Accents --; 7. Numbering Systems --; II. Graphotactics, Writing, and Ductus --; 8. Graphotactics --; 9. Writing --; 10. Ductus --; III. Garšūnography, Adaptation, and Alloglottography --; 11. Garšūnography I: Syriac as the Target Script --; 12. Garšūnography II: Syriac as the Source Language --; 13. Nongaršūnographic Adaptations of the Syriac Script --; 14. Alloglottography --; IV. Technological Developments --; 15. Lithography and Mimeography --; 16. Typewriters --; 17. Digital Typography --; 18. Coding Standards --; General Index --; Authority Index --; Biblical Citations --; CV Patterns --; Grammatical & Technical Terms --; Graph Index --; Manuscripts Index --; Word Index --; Quotations Index; restricted access
N2  - This volume, the first in a comprehensive grammar of the Syriac language, is a thematic presentation of orthography in the Syriac grammatical tradition, bringing the study of Syriac writing closer to modern linguistic accounts of writing systems
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463235246
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463235246
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463235246/original
ER  -