Peter wrote:Thanks for the quick reply. May I pass this on to the Unicode list? I needn't include your name if you prefer. I could just call you a PhD candidate in Semitics at a major US university, if that is accurate.
So, my question at last is: Are there scholarly publications (moreAre
recent than BDB!) which quote inscriptional Aramaic, Phoenician,
Samaritan, paleo-Hebrew etc as well as Hebrew? In such cases, what
scripts are used for Aramaic, Phoenician etc? BDB (1906) quoted these
and even south Arabian inscriptions in Hebrew script. But what is the
modern practice? Are ancient alphabets (other than Hebrew, Arabic,
Syriac etc which are in modern use) ever used in such publications?
these languages ever transcribed in Hebrew script, or only in Latinjournals
script transliteration? I am interested in practice in Israeli
in modern Hebrew as well as in journals in western languages.
As far as I know, they are normally transcribed in Latin or Hebrew
letters. There may be some need for Samaritan as its own script, but
generally speaking the epigraphic scripts are better hand-drawn where
necessary. BTW, has there been any talk about introducing non-Tiberian
vowel points for Hebrew and Aramaic? I'm thinking particularly of the
Babylonian pointing system.
Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics
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