Syriac language
dialect of Middle Aramaic
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 | |
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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] |
Early form | |
Syriac abjad | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | syc Classical Syriac |
ISO 639-3 | syc Classical Syriac |
Glottolog | clas1252 |
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References
change- ↑ Angold 2006, pp. 391
Other websites
change Aramaic edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Syriac language.
- 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