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The Syriac alphabet (ܐܠܦ ܒܝܬ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ʾālep̄ bêṯ Sūryāyā [a]) is a writing system primarily used to write the Syriac language since the 1st century AD. [1] It is one of the Semitic abjads descending from the Aramaic alphabet through the Palmyrene alphabet, [2] and shares similarities with the Phoenician, Hebrew, Arabic and Sogdian, the precursor and a direct ancestor of the ...
Syriac is a Unicode block containing characters for all forms of the Syriac alphabet, including the Estrangela, Serto, Eastern Syriac, and the Christian Palestinian Aramaic variants. It is used in Literary Syriac, Neo-Aramaic, and Arabic among Syriac-speaking Christians.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Syriac alphabet (200 BCE–present) ܐ ܒ ܓ ...
Toggle Syriac Alphabet subsection. 12.1 Syriac ... Download as PDF; ... This language recognition chart presents a variety of clues one can use to help ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Unicode chart Syriac}} provides a list of Unicode code points in the Syriac block. Usage
An 11th-century Syriac manuscript. In the English language, the term "Syriac" is used as a linguonym (language name) designating a specific variant of the Aramaic language in relation to its regional origin in northeastern parts of Ancient Syria, around Edessa, which lay outside of the provincial borders of Roman Syria.
The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language, ... Syriac 2nd c. BCE ... Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) ...
The Syriac alphabet has three principal varieties: Estrangelâ (the Classical Syriac script), Madnhâyâ (the Eastern Syriac script, often called "Assyrian" or "Nestorian"), Sertâ (the Western Syriac script, often called "Jacobite" or "Maronite"). The Syriac alphabet is extended by use of diacritics to write Arabic Garshuni.