ܡܡܠܠܐ ܕܘܝܩܝܦܕܝܐ:ܡܕܒܪܢܐ

Style Guide

Guys, I think that it may be a good idea to start working on a style guide that editors can use when posting and editing articles here on the Aramaic Wikipedia. Basically, something similar to what the English Wikipedia has, but altered for our purposes here. For example, some issues I believe we should bring up include:

• Use of vowels and diatric marks.
• Use of multiple Aramaic Dialects.
  • I was thinking of setting up a template system to note which pages are in which dialects.
• Spelling conventions.

What do you think? -- -ܐܡܪ ܠܝ- Steve Caruso -- 17:21, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

• • Hey Steve, when writing in Aramaic/Syriac/Assyrian their is no dialects. East and west are one when it comes to writing. the only diffrence is in the vowels used, the way the letter is sounded and font. Overall, if someone were to write something in western Aramaic I would not know, because i would automatically start reading what is written in my own(Eastern). In my opinion, the only problem we have so far is the use of vowels. Should we not use follows in the title as well as the body of the article? When vowels are used that is when the dialect porblem occurs. You automatically split Eastern Syriac from Western Syriac.

One thing that I wanted to add is, Eastern Syriac is used more. It is spoken by a greater number of people around the world and it has been made the official language in certian areas of Iraq.

--ܐܬܘܪܝܐ 04:08, 15 January 2007 (UTC)