Syriac

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Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that became a major literary and liturgical language of early Eastern Christianity and the Syriac Church tradition.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Middle Aramaic language
classical language
dialect
literary language
liturgical language
developedFrom Aramaic
surface form: Old Aramaic
era Syriac self-linksurface differs
surface form: Middle Aramaic period
firstAttested 1st century CE
floruit 4th century CE
5th century CE
6th century CE
hasDialect East Syriac script
surface form: Eastern Syriac

Syriac self-linksurface differs
surface form: Western Syriac
importantAuthor Aphrahat
Ephrem the Syrian
Jacob of Serugh
Narsai
importantTextualTradition Peshitta
influenced Arabic literature
Armenian Christian literature
Christian Arabic
Georgian Christian literature
ISO639-2Code syc
ISO639-3Code syc
languageFamily Afroasiatic
Aramaic
Semitic
liturgicalLanguageOf Assyrian Church of the East
surface form: Ancient Church of the East

Assyrian Church of the East
Chaldean Catholic Church
Maronite Christianity
surface form: Maronite Church

Syriac Catholic Church
Syriac Orthodox Church
region Edessa
Mesopotamia
surface form: Northern Mesopotamia

Edessa
surface form: Osroene

Mesopotamia
surface form: Upper Mesopotamia
religiousTradition Christianity
Syriac Rite
surface form: Syriac Christianity
scriptDirection right-to-left
standardForm Syriac self-linksurface differs
surface form: Classical Syriac
status classical liturgical language
no longer a vernacular in its classical form
subclassOf Afroasiatic language
Aramaic language
Semitic language
usedFor biblical translation
hymnography
liturgical texts
patristic writings
theological literature
usedIn Assyrian Church of the East
surface form: Ancient Church of the East

Assyrian Church of the East
Chaldean Catholic Church
Assyrian Church of the East
surface form: Church of the East

Eastern Christianity
Maronite Christianity
surface form: Maronite Church

Syriac Catholic Church
Syriac Rite
surface form: Syriac Christianity

Syriac Orthodox Church
writingSystem Aramaic alphabet (historically)
surface form: Syriac alphabet
writingSystemUnicodeBlock Syriac (U+0700–U+074F)
writingSystemVariant East Syriac script
Estrangela script
West Syriac script

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Church Fathers language Syriac
Syriac era Syriac self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Middle Aramaic period
Syriac standardForm Syriac self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Syriac hasDialect Syriac self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Western Syriac
Assyrians liturgicalLanguage Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Syriac Rite usesLiturgicalLanguage Syriac
this entity surface form: Syriac language
Semitic languages hasWritingSystem Syriac
this entity surface form: Syriac script
Semitic languages usedIn Syriac
this entity surface form: Syriac Christian literature
Aramaic hasDialects Syriac
Syriac Orthodox Church languageOfTheology Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Jacob of Serugh language Syriac
Narsai language Syriac
East Syriac script usedForLanguage Syriac
this entity surface form: Syriac language
East Syriac script relatedTo Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac language
Sūrāyē usedInDialect Syriac
Fenqitho language Syriac
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ancestorLanguage Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Estrangela script writingSystemOf Syriac
this entity surface form: Syriac language
Estrangela script region Syriac
this entity surface form: Syriac-speaking world
Estrangela script writingSystemScope Syriac
this entity surface form: classical Syriac
Peshitta language Syriac
Desert Mothers language Syriac
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic historicalAncestor Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Hudra language Syriac
Eastern Christianity usesLiturgicalLanguage Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Manichaeism language Syriac