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"Citation needed" for "Aarbic" is Wikipedia at its best! ;-) (Especially in the given context, where this specifically refers to "unvocalised Arabic", which im
by masswerk 3y ago
"Citation needed" for "Aarbic" is Wikipedia at its best! ;-)
(Especially in the given context, where this specifically refers to "unvocalised Arabic", which implies that the written language doesn't include vowels.)
- resolutebat 3y agoI don't understand your comment or the citation needed? Arabic, like Hebrew, is typically written without most vowels and that makes reading words like "sfr" or "ktb" a guessing game. Theologians still squabble over how "yhwh" is supposed to be pronounced (Yahweh? Jehovah?). You can add diacritics to both Arabic and Hebrew to show all vowels, but this is rarely done outside religious texts.
- masswerk 3y agoIt's that I do not understand the "citation needed" annotation applied to "Arabic", because of the very reasons, you mentioned. (What kind of mindset is behind this?)
- 1-more 3y agoJehovah was formed by taking the vowel points from Adonai and putting them over the tetragram (Yhwh) in order to remind the reader not to say the actual name of God but to instead say "my lord." https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/840-adonai https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/840-adonai
- masswerk 3y agoThis is pretty interesting in the context of how how we look at and think of (written) words. Thank you!