Syriac grammar

Syriac diacritics (ptaha)

zqafa-alaf I. In addition to the vowel zqafa and the combination zqafa-alaf ,the vowel [a] can be indicated with the vowel ptaha which has the following form: As you can clearly see, this vocalization schematically reproduces …

The double dot (seyame) in Classical Syriac.

The seyame sign-the double dot, was used in Classical Syriac to mark the plural. For some written words there was no way to tell whether they denoted the singular or plural form like the word  ܡܠܟܐ for king or kings. ܡ̈ܠܟܐ /…

The man did NOT write-negation in Syriac.

Shlama! Today we are going to learn how to negate a sencence in Syriac.The word for not in Syriac Aramaic is la. la means not in Aramaic To negate a sentence just put the word la at the beginning of it and then form t…

Basic prepositions in Syriac Aramaic

Good day.Today we will learn some basic prepositions in Aramaic.Lets start.   b -at,in,with (instrumental case,e.g. with a stone)   d -of  l -to,for,the (sometimes it just means 'the' ,like the definite articl…

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