Wikipedia's first sentence called it “system of diacritics devised by the samaritans to add to the consonantal text of the samaritan pentateuch and t”. Today it says “system of diacritics used with the samaritan script to indicate vowel quality and gemination which reflects sam”.
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Samaritan vocalization for the words ויאמר and עבדים in the Samaritan script The Samaritan vocalization (or Samaritan pointing , Samaritan niqqud , Hebrew : ניקוד שומרוני ) is a system of diacritics used with the Samaritan script to indicate vowel quality and gemination which reflects Samaritan Hebrew . It is used by the Samaritans to provide guidance on the pronunciation of the consonantal text of the Samaritan Pentateuch and Samaritan prayer books. The Samaritan vocalization is estimated to have been invented around the 10th century CE. Variation exists within the system between different manuscripts.
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Examples of Samaritan vocalization for the words ויאמר and עבדים in the Samaritan script. The Samaritan vocalization (or Samaritan pointing , Samaritan niqqud , Hebrew: ניקוד שומרוני ) is a system of diacritics devised by the Samaritans to add to the consonantal text of the Samaritan Pentateuch and to Samaritan prayer books to indicate vowel quality, reflecting Samaritan Hebrew . It is estimated that the Samaritan vocalization was invented around the 10th century CE. Only the most important vowels were indicated, and variation exists within the system between different manuscripts.
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Examples of Samaritan vocalization for the words ויאמר and עבדים in the Samaritan script. The Samaritan vocalization (or Samaritan pointing , Samaritan niqqud , ) is a system of diacritics used with the Samaritan script to indicate vowel quality and gemination which reflects Samaritan Hebrew .It is used by the Samaritans to provide guidance on the pronunciation of the consonantal text of the Samaritan Pentateuch and Samaritan prayer books.The Samaritan vocalization is estimated to have been invented around the 10th century CE. Variation exists within the system between different manuscripts.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “system of diacritics devised by the samaritans to add to the consonantal text of the samaritan pentateuch and t”. Today it says “system of diacritics used with the samaritan script to indicate vowel quality and gemination which reflects sam”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
system of diacritics devised by the samaritans to add to the consonantal text of the samaritan pentateuch and t
Now
system of diacritics used with the samaritan script to indicate vowel quality and gemination which reflects sam
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