. Journal of the transactions of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain . milarity to the Arabic. Onepeculiarity is the naming of the letters Avith the a voAvel andnot as in other Semitic languages by special names : alif,,bay, jeem, dal, etc. The oldest manuscripts of the Man-diiitic date from the sixteenth century, and are in European. 234 EEV. S. M. ZWEMER,, , ON THE MANDAITIC ALPHABET. {Adapted and corrected from Noldel-e.) NAME. CHAK4CTEB. VALUE. HEBREWEQUIVALENT. ARABICEQUIVALENT. all 0 A- ^ a « T baga 9 n (__>^ da a T cl -f J ha -- ^w h n r wa -» -1
. Journal of the transactions of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain . milarity to the Arabic. Onepeculiarity is the naming of the letters Avith the a voAvel andnot as in other Semitic languages by special names : alif,,bay, jeem, dal, etc. The oldest manuscripts of the Man-diiitic date from the sixteenth century, and are in European. 234 EEV. S. M. ZWEMER,, , ON THE MANDAITIC ALPHABET. {Adapted and corrected from Noldel-e.) NAME. CHAK4CTEB. VALUE. HEBREWEQUIVALENT. ARABICEQUIVALENT. all 0 A- ^ a « T baga 9 n (__>^ da a T cl -f J ha -- ^w h n r wa -» -1— 10 1 J za t 1- z T J ha ^ a ^^ llll n r ta £I^ t D L ya L ( y iS) 1 4/ ka ^ t k 2 ^ la J 1 I h J ma 31 ,Jl_ m n r na K r n :: c; sa ^ -»<2- s D U^ a Cl (guttural) v t pa r t P, f D Sr — tsa X T T~ ts !! u^ qa SC 33^ <1 P J ra ±S J±. r 1 J sha ^ A^ sh tir ta Jl -n- t n CL^ eddoa c^ ^ sign of relativepionoun. = i(?) = THE STIK WORSHIPPERS OF MESOPOTAMIA. 235 ai n^. o o zn o Pio l<3^ ^ < z 1^ :) CO -5 s Ji:^ ^ ^ k. r^ ;h c3 ?H ^ 3 r-*. -t-i —~t r-( 03 ^ fe CC. ^ ^ 236 EEV. S. M. ZWEMER, , ON Libraries (Paris and Oxford). But the golden period oftheir literature, that is, the time when their religious booksreceived their final and present form was, according toNoldeke, from 650-900 At present only the few among-^them can read or Avrite their language, although all canspeak it, and from religious motives they refuse to teachthose outside of their faith even the first lesson, exceptsecretly. And so it was that although meeting Sabeans for the pastfour years and being their guest on frequent journeys upand down the rivers, 1 found no satisfactory answer to thequestion what their real faith and cult Avere. The popularstory that they turn to the North Star when they pray and baptise every Sunday was all that Moslems or Christianscould tell. Books of travel on this region gave fragmentary,conflicting and often grossly erroneous statements. Accord-in
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