Syriac language

Syriac
ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ Leššānā Suryāyā
Leššānā Suryāyā in written Syriac (Esṭrangelā script)
Pronunciation	lɛʃʃɑːnɑː surjɑːjɑː
Region	Upper Mesopotamia, Eastern Arabia
Era	1st century AD; Dramatically declined as a vernacular language after the 14th century; Developed into Northeastern Neo-Aramaic and Central Neo-Aramaic languages after the 12th century.
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramaic Eastern Aramaic Syriac
Early form	Old Syriac
Writing system	Syriac abjad
Language codes
ISO 639-2	syc Classical Syriac
ISO 639-3	syc Classical Syriac
Glottolog	clas1252

Syriac Aramaic alphabet

An 11th century Syriac manuscript.

Syriac (ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ leššānā Suryāyā) is an Eastern Aramaic language. It was spoken long ago in the Fertile Crescent. Most of the Aramaic writing that survives from the second to the eighth century AD is Syriac.

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• Syria
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• Phoenicia
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• Ancient Egypt
• History of Asia
• Roman Empire
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• Helladic period
• Ancient Greece
• Greek alphabet
• Assyrian people
• History of Europe
• Kingdom of Israel
• Classical antiquity
• Aramaic language
• Eastern Christianity
• Phoenician alphabet

Other websites

• en:Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium at English Wikipedia
• Beth Mardutho — The Syriac Institute
• Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies
• Bar Hebraeus Verlag (catalogue of Syriac books)
• Gorgias Press (catalogue of Syriac books) Archived 2007-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
• Ethnologue report on Syriac
• The Syriac Maronites — Beith Souryoye Morounoye
• Chaldean OCR - An optical character recognition software to extract text from images and PDFs