Serṭo

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Serṭo is a cursive style of the Syriac alphabet used primarily in West Syriac Christian liturgical and literary traditions.

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Label Occurrences
Serṭo canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Syriac script style
writing system variant
alphabetType abjad
alsoKnownAs Serto
Serṭā
associatedWith Maronite Church
Syriac Catholic Church
Syriac Orthodox Church
West Syriac Rite
contrastedWith East Syriac script (Madnhaya)
linked to: East Syriac script

Estrangela
culturalContext Christian Near Eastern tradition
derivedFrom Estrangela script
hasFeature connected letterforms
contextual letter shapes
diacritic vowel marks
separate signs for Syriac diacritics
hasLetterCount 22 consonant letters
hasLigatures yes
hasPunctuationSystem Syriac punctuation marks
influencedBy earlier Syriac book hands
primaryUsage West Syriac liturgical manuscripts
West Syriac printed books
region Levant
linked to: Levant region

Upper Mesopotamia
scriptCategory historical script
scriptFamily Syriac alphabet
scriptType cursive script
scriptUsageStatus in continuous liturgical use
standardizedIn West Syriac monastic scriptoria
linked to: West Syriac script
supportsVocalization yes
timePeriod medieval development
unicodeBlock Syriac (U+0700–U+074F)
usedBy Syriac-speaking Christians
West Syriac scribes
usedFor liturgical texts
manuscript copying
religious literature
usedForLanguageFamily Aramaic languages
linked to: Aramaic
usedIn Syriac Christianity
linked to: Syriac Churches

West Syriac tradition
writingDirection right-to-left script
writingSystemOf Classical Syriac
linked to: Syriac

Syriac language

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Serto script alsoKnownAs Serṭo