Timeline for Are there any diacritics not on the top or bottom of a letter?
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| Jan 27, 2021 at 9:56 | comment | added | Tristan | @Jonathan I had always heard the vav+dot glyph referred to as shuruk, although I am mostly coming from linguistic treatments of Tiberian Hebrew, rather than pedagogic material for Modern Hebrew. Treating the entire thing as the diacritic has the advantage of meaning every non-final letter gets a vowel diacritic (in fully pointed text), whereas treating just the dot as shuruk means you require vowel-less letters when preceding a vav+shuruk | |
| Jan 26, 2021 at 13:44 | comment | added | Jonathan | Source for my Shuruk comment - that's how I learned it in Israeli grade school... | |
| Jan 26, 2021 at 13:38 | comment | added | Jonathan | Nikkud is also used when pronunciation is ambiguous, and when writing poetry. | |
| Jan 26, 2021 at 13:36 | comment | added | Jonathan |
@Tristan: Shuruk is just the point. It is typographically identical to a Dagesh - a point in the middle of the letter, or after it in case of Vav - but its meaning is different: A Shuruk signifies an U vowel, while a dagesh changes a consonant's pronounciation.
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| Jan 25, 2021 at 10:26 | comment | added | Tristan | adding to ruakh's comment, the entire vav+dagesh glyph is the shuruk, not simply the dot. Shuruk is an example of a diacritic that appears to the left (after) the glyph it attaches to. The Thai abugida includes several vowel diacritics appearing to the left (before) and to the right (after) the consonant they attach to, as well as others appearing above or below | |
| Jan 25, 2021 at 1:36 | comment | added | ruakh | The second paragraph of this answer isn't quite right. A shuruk is identical to a vav with a dagesh; the dot is actually "inside" the vav in the same way that a dagesh would be, it's just that in some fonts the vav is just a vertical line so it's not obvious that the left side of the line is the "inside". (But, +1 for the rest of this answer.) | |
| Jan 24, 2021 at 13:01 | history | answered | Robert Columbia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |