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The riddle of the Syriac double dot: it’s the world’s earliest question mark

Posted on 22 July 2011 by Special Collections

Manuscripts written in Syriac, an ancient language of the Middle East, are peppered with mysterious dots. Among them is the vertical double dot or zawga […]

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