Syriac language facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Syriac
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.
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramaic Eastern Aramaic Syriac
Writing system	Syriac abjad
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Syriac Aramaic alphabet

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 script.

An eleventh-century Syriac manuscript.

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.

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Images for kids

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  Late Syriac text, written in Madnhāyā script, fom Thrissur, India (1799)

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  Lord's Prayer in Syriac language

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  Ancient mosaic from Edessa (from the 2nd century CE) with inscriptions in early Edessan Aramaic (Old Syriac)

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  Syriac "Codex Ambrosianus" (F. 128) from the 11th century

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  Bilingual Syriac and Neo-Persian psalter, in Syriac script, from the 12th-13th century

See also

In Spanish: Idioma siríaco para niños