He dated the manuscript fragments to the fifth century; the text, which may be as early as the second century, is written in the oldest and classical form of the Syriac alphabet, called " Esm rangel ", without vowel points.
32.
Although the Arabic vowel points ( " harakat " ) can be used " s1a bit ", they are generally found only in dictionaries and didactic works, as in Arabic and Persian, and they still do not identify vowel sounds unambiguously.
33.
Note finally that under narrow letters ( such as nun ) with vowel points below, or under letters that are also surrounded by multiple vowel points or cantillation accents below them, the meteg may not fit well on any side of the vowel point below the base letter.
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Note finally that under narrow letters ( such as nun ) with vowel points below, or under letters that are also surrounded by multiple vowel points or cantillation accents below them, the meteg may not fit well on any side of the vowel point below the base letter.
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Note finally that under narrow letters ( such as nun ) with vowel points below, or under letters that are also surrounded by multiple vowel points or cantillation accents below them, the meteg may not fit well on any side of the vowel point below the base letter.
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The three controls CGJ, ZWJ and ZWNJ ( which have canonical combining class 0 ) are all blocking the canonical reordering of meteg with vowels points, and only ZWJ is needed for the special placement of meteg ( combining class ) in the middle of an hataf vowel.
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Some of the vowel points offered are so indistinct and small that they are readily confused with each other, and in at least one instance, choosing one particular vowel point from the drop-down feature actually inserts a DIFFERENT vowel point into the text of the article.
38.
Some of the vowel points offered are so indistinct and small that they are readily confused with each other, and in at least one instance, choosing one particular vowel point from the drop-down feature actually inserts a DIFFERENT vowel point into the text of the article.
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Some of the vowel points offered are so indistinct and small that they are readily confused with each other, and in at least one instance, choosing one particular vowel point from the drop-down feature actually inserts a DIFFERENT vowel point into the text of the article.
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The same information is displayed in the table above and to the right, where " " YHWH " intended to be pronounced as " Adonai " " and " " Adonai ", with its slightly different vowel points " shown to have different vowel points.
