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Bookmark or Share- Introduction | The Syriac World: In Search of a Forgotten Christianity ...Syriac was a major cultural language in Syro-Mesopotamia from approximately the 2nd to the 13th century AD. Although it stretched from the Mediterranean to East Asia, it was never the language of a state or a particular people in a national or ethnic sense; instead, it was a language of encounter and cultural contact.
- Syriac alphabet, languages and pronunciation - OmniglotSyriac (ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ leššānā Suryāyā), an eastern dialect of Aramaic spoken by Christians in the lands in between the Roman and Parthian empires between the 1st and 12th centuries. Syriac is still used used nowadays as ritual and literary language by speakers of Neo-Aramaic in Syria.
- Syriac Christianity - WikipediaSyriac Christianity (Syriac: ܡܫܝܚܝܘܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ / Mšiḥoyuṯo Suryoyto or Mšiḥāyūṯā Suryāytā) is a branch of Eastern Christianity of which formative theological writings and traditional liturgies are expressed in the Classical Syriac language, a variation of the old Aramaic language.
- Syriac alphabet | Aramaic, Semitic, Scripts | BritannicaSyriac alphabet, writing system used by the Syriac Christians from the 1st century ad until about the 14th century. A Semitic alphabet, Syriac was an offshoot of a cursive Aramaic script. It had 22 letters, all representing consonants, and was generally written from right to left, although
- Syriac language | Aramaic, Assyrian, & Literature | BritannicaSyriac language, Semitic language belonging to the Northern Central, or Northwestern, group that was an important Christian literary and liturgical language from the 3rd through the 7th century. Syriac was based on the East Aramaic dialect of Edessa, Osroëne (present-day Şanlıurfa, in southeastern.
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