An Early Syriac Question Mark
J. F. Coakley
Sentence-punctuation in manuscripts of the Syriac Peshitta Bible is not well understood. One punctuation mark, however, a vertical pair points above letter, known as zawgā ʿelāyā , can be made out with some confidence: it marks yes-or-no questions. This conclusion demonstrated from sampling early New Testament British Library. The evidence these all more valuable because native grammarians generally lost key to meaning this and other marks. It conjectured that was first language use reading sign question mark.
Aramaic Studies