Original Research: Historical Thought and Source Interpretation

The complexity of the relationship of vocalisation signs of Semitic pointing systems

Philip Suciadi Chia
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 78, No 4 | a7741 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v78i4.7741 | © 2022 Philip Suciadi Chia | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 13 May 2022 | Published: 08 July 2022

About the author(s)

Philip Suciadi Chia, Faculty of Biblical Studies, Evangelical Theological Seminary of Indonesia/STTII, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Faculty of Biblical Studies, Reformed Theological Seminary of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

This article has a few goals. The first goal is to discover the development of Semitic pointing systems such as Babylonian Hebrew (both simple and complex), Tiberian Hebrew, Palestinian Hebrew, Samaritan Hebrew, Syriac (both Western [Jacobite] and Eastern [Nestorian]) and Arabic. The second goal is to propose the possible development because of the interaction between those languages in the past. In this article, the comparative method will be used as the methodology. A general observation of these signs and a proposition regarding the possible development amongst those languages will be presented.

Contribution: This article traces the synchronic and diachronic development of Semitic languages’ vocalisation systems and proposes a possible development between them.


Keywords

Semitic languages; Hebrew; Arabic; Aramaic; Syriac

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