Re: Aleph-umlaut

On 11/10/18 1:25 AM, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
>
> In the last pages of the text linked by Mark E. Shoulson, both the
> gershayim and the aleph-umlaut are shown.  A quick look didn't find
> any other base letter with the combining umlaut.
>
Indeed; there is no shortage of use of the GERSHAYIM, used as it
normally is, to indicate abbreviations.  The umlaut on the alef is used
specifically in the Yiddish parts, to be an umlaut (the word with the
GERSHAYIM on the top line is an abbreviation for the phrase for a legal
court or authority; the word on the second like transliterates
apparently to "bestätigt"; someone with better German than me can make
more sense of it.  The example I sent at first used the word
"legalität", which even I can understand as "legality" or something like
that.)  I think the Yiddish at the time may already not have had ö or ü
sounds, so had no need to transliterate those (or maybe there just
happened not to be a need for them in this text); certainly I see
Yiddish spellings like אויפֿ־ ("oyf-") where German would have "auf".

~mark
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