Re: Hebrew Vav Holam

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 17:18:57 EDT

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    Ted Hopp scripsit:

    > There are exactly two Hebrew vowels that are spacing glyphs: holam male and
    > shuruq.

    Is not U+FB35 HEBREW LETTER VAV WITH DAGESH a shuruq?

    > It seems wrong to be calling a base character a HEBREW MARK. It also seems a
    > little odd to be calling a Hebrew vowel a HEBREW LETTER when every other
    > HEBREW LETTER is a consonant. But if that's what convention requires....

    Holam male would be more like a LETTER, since it is not a combining mark.

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