01-23-2008, 04:54 AM
Shlama friedman,
It actually takes more time to look for a Peshitta in Hebrew script than it does to learn Estrangela...
It's really not difficult to learn Estrangela if you know the Hebrew alphabet. They're the same alphabet, same name and order of the letters save minor differences in pronunciation (gimel -> gamal, samekh -> simkath), Estrangela being the "round" version and Hebrew being the "square" version of the same Aramaic alphabet. I myself, having already known Estrangela, learned Hebrew by glancing at a chart of the alphabet a few times and realizing I had remembered most of the letter shapes.
For a chart, you can go to the homepage of this website, click on Introduction, then Aramaic, then the first link that reads "Alphabet."
It actually takes more time to look for a Peshitta in Hebrew script than it does to learn Estrangela...
It's really not difficult to learn Estrangela if you know the Hebrew alphabet. They're the same alphabet, same name and order of the letters save minor differences in pronunciation (gimel -> gamal, samekh -> simkath), Estrangela being the "round" version and Hebrew being the "square" version of the same Aramaic alphabet. I myself, having already known Estrangela, learned Hebrew by glancing at a chart of the alphabet a few times and realizing I had remembered most of the letter shapes.
For a chart, you can go to the homepage of this website, click on Introduction, then Aramaic, then the first link that reads "Alphabet."