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Alaph/Yudh Discrepancy in Aramaic
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Karl Wrote:Thanks Paul. So can I assume that the Peshitta spelling is the older spelling?

Usually that's the case, yes. In the contemporary spellings, occasionally the Aleph became a Yudh to be more phonetic, an orthographic relic of a unwritten vowel once separating the two consonants.
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Alaph/Yudh Discrepancy in Aramaic - by Karl - 02-01-2008, 06:01 PM
Re: Alaph/Yudh Discrepancy in Aramaic - by Karl - 02-01-2008, 06:22 PM
Re: Alaph/Yudh Discrepancy in Aramaic - by Paul Younan - 02-01-2008, 07:12 PM

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