Syriac language

Syriac
Syriac
ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ‎ <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">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 forms:	Old Syriac Syriac;
Writing system	Syriac abjad
Language codes
ISO 639-2	syc
ISO 639-3	syc Classical Syriac
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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

An eleventh-century Syriac manuscript.

Syriac Language Media

Late Syriac text, written in Madnhāyā script, from Thrissur, Kerala, India, 1799
The Lord's Prayer in Syriac language
Syriac "Codex Ambrosianus" (F. 128) from the 11th century (CORRECTION: here the text is in Greek cursive)
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)