Syriac language

Syriac
Syriac
ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ‎ <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639-2' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Leššānā Suryāyā
	200px Leššānā Suryāyā in written Syriac (Esṭrangelā script)
Pronunciation	lɛʃʃɑːnɑː surjɑːjɑː
Region	Upper Mesopotamia, Eastern Arabia
Era	1st century AD until ~ 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 forms:	Old Syriac Syriac;
Writing system	Syriac abjad
Language codes
ISO 639-2	syc
ISO 639-3	syc Classical Syriac
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The Syriac language (Classical Syriac: ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, romanized: Leššānā Suryāyācode: syc is deprecated ) is an Eastern Aramaic language.^[2] It was spoken long ago in the Fertile Crescent.^[2] In the West Syriac tradition, it is known as Leššōnō kṯoḇonōyō,^[3] while in the East Syriac tradition, it is known as Leššānā ʔatīqā or Leššānā saprāyā.^[4]

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Syriac Aramaic alphabet

File:Syriac Sertâ book script.jpg

An 11th century Syriac manuscript.

Syriac Language Media

East Syriac Script Thaksa.jpg

Late Syriac text, written in Madnhāyā script, from Thrissur, Kerala, India, 1799
Awondwashmayanetqaddash.png

The Lord's Prayer in Syriac language
Ambrosianus F128.png

Syriac "Codex Ambrosianus" (F. 128) from the 11th century (CORRECTION: here the text is in Greek cursive)
Bilingual Syriac-New Persian psalter in Syriac script, Bulayik, 12th-13th century AD, paper - Ethnological Museum, Berlin - DSC01760.JPG

A bilingual Syriac and Neo-Persian psalter, in Syriac script, from the 12th–13th century
Syriac Christianity.svg

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.
Early Syriac alphabet form of the name of Jesus.svg

Īšoˁ, the Syriac pronunciation of the Hebrew and Aramaic name of Jesus, Ishoʿ

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References

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Thompson, Damian; Nazir-Ali, Michael (January 31, 2025). "Are Syrian Christians who speak the language of Jesus about to disappear after 2,000 years?". The Spectator. https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/are-syrian-christians-who-speak-the-language-of-jesus-about-to-disappear-after-2000-years. Retrieved May 4, 2025.

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