06-17-2011, 10:35 PM
Shlama Paul,
Rather than being related to which script is being used I think it's more to do with the period of Aramaic development. In earlier times, Aramaic had more consonants, one of them being "Sin", which ended up merging with Samek. Hebrew also ended up undergoing this merger too, but they retained the archaic spelling.
Abu Rashid.
Paul Younan Wrote:As you know sometimes in the Hebrew/Ashuri script the Sheen is used as a Simkath, where in Estrangelo it's always a Sh.
Rather than being related to which script is being used I think it's more to do with the period of Aramaic development. In earlier times, Aramaic had more consonants, one of them being "Sin", which ended up merging with Samek. Hebrew also ended up undergoing this merger too, but they retained the archaic spelling.
Abu Rashid.