Syriac language
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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 | ||||
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![]() 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
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Early forms: | Old Syriac
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Writing system | Syriac abjad | |||
Language codes | ||||
ISO 639-2 | syc | |||
ISO 639-3 | syc Classical Syriac | |||
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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 alphabet. |
Syriac Language Media
The Lord's Prayer in Syriac language
A bilingual Syriac and Neo-Persian psalter, in Syriac script, from the 12th–13th century
Once a major language in the Fertile Crescent and Eastern Arabia, Syriac is now limited to the towns and villages in the Nineveh Plains, Tur Abdin, the Khabur plains, in and around the cities of Mosul, Erbil and Kirkuk.
Īšoˁ, the Syriac pronunciation of the Hebrew and Aramaic name of Jesus, Yeshuʿ (ישוע)
Related pages
- Syria
- Judea
- Assyria
- Iron Age
- Phoenicia
- Jerusalem
- Near East
- Bronze Age
- Ancient Egypt
- History of Asia
- Roman Empire
- Ancient history
- Helladic period
- Ancient Greece
- Greek alphabet
- Assyrian people
- History of Europe
- Kingdom of Israel
- Classical antiquity
- Aramaic language
- Eastern Christianity
- Phoenician alphabet
Other websites
This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Syriac language edition. |
- 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)[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
References
- ↑ Angold 2006, pp. 391