Syriac language

Syriac
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; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Syriac abjad
Language codes
ISO 639-2	syc Classical Syriac
ISO 639-3	syc Classical Syriac
Glottolog	clas1252
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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.

Syriac Aramaic alphabet

This article contains Syriac text, written from right to left in a cursive style with some letters joined. Without proper rendering support, you may see unjoined Syriac letters or other symbols instead of Syriac script.

An eleventh-century Syriac manuscript.

ReferencesEdit

↑ Angold 2006, pp. 391

Other websitesEdit

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)^{[permanent dead link]}
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

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[Angold391-1] Angold 2006, pp. 391

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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.^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramaic Eastern Aramaic Syriac
Writing system	Syriac abjad
Language codes
ISO 639-2	`syc` Classical Syriac
ISO 639-3	`syc` Classical Syriac
Glottolog	`clas1252`
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.