From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 08:54:37 EDT
On 25/07/2003 05:14, Kent Karlsson wrote:
>A possible solution to the particular problem at hand that
>hasn't yet been mentioned (that I've noticed), is to use the
>already encoded vowel characters for the most part (also
>for biblical texts), but use new "biblical" vowels only for the
>occurrences where they occur as *second* vowel (with an
>implied invisible consonant): HEBREW SECOND VOWEL HIRIQ,
>etc. (Strikes me as rather elegant, though it requires the
>addition of new characters.)
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At first sight this looks like a good alternative proposal. It would be
acceptable to me as long as their use is clearly defined, and the word
BIBLICAL is not part of their name. So far I have only documented sheva,
hiriq and patah being used as "second" vowels, also holam in
וַיִּקְבְֹּר 2 Ki 21:26 which came to my attention yesterday, but there
may be cases which I have not seen. So potentially all eleven Hebrew
vowels will need to be duplicated.
-- Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
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