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J.F. Coakley. The Typography of Syriac: A Historical Catalogue of Printing Types, 1537-1958.(Book review)
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Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
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September 22, 2007
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- Bell, David N.
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J.F. Coakley. The Typography of Syriac: A Historical Catalogue of Printing Types, 1537-1958. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2006. 272 pp.; US $75.00 ISBN 1584561920
Syriac is a Semitic language and belongs to a family which includes a number of ancient languages--Akkadian, Ugaritic, and Phoenician are examples--together with Arabic, Hebrew, and ancient and modern Aramaic, which survives today among a few scattered Christian communities in the Near East. Syriac, which remains a liturgical language, is sometimes called Christian Aramaic, and, in terms of grammar and syntax, Aramaic and Syriac are essentially the same, though they are not written in ...