01-25-2013, 01:50 AM
ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:"Ena 'na" includes four alefs, why is the third one omitted in the transliteration?
When a personal pronoun becomes a copula in Syriac and begins with a vowel, it drops the initial vowel. The alef is still written, but is effectively silent.
Not all Aramaic dialects share this feature.