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- Syriac_language abstract "Syriac /ˈsɪriæk/ (ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ Leššānā Suryāyā), also known as Syriac Aramaic, is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent and Eastern Arabia. Having first appeared in the early first century AD in Edessa, classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from the 4th to the 8th centuries, the classical language of Edessa, preserved in a large body of Syriac literature. Indeed, Syriac literature comprises roughly 90% of the extant Aramaic literature.Old Aramaic was adopted by the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-605 BC) when they conquered the various Aramean city-kingdoms to its west. The Achaemenid Empire, which rose after the fall of the Assyrian Empire, also adopted Old Aramaic as its official language and Old Aramaic quickly became the lingua franca of the region. During the course of the third and fourth centuries AD, the inhabitants of the region began to embrace Christianity.From the 1st century AD Syriac became the vehicle of Syriac Christianity and culture, and the liturgical language of the Syriac Orthodox Church and subsequently the Church of the East, along with its descendants: the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Assyrian Church of the East, the Ancient Church of the East, the Saint Thomas Christian Churches, and the Assyrian Pentecostal Church. Syriac Christianity and language spread throughout Asia as far as the Indian Malabar Coast and Eastern China, and was the medium of communication and cultural dissemination for the later Arabs and, to a lesser extent, the Parthian Empire and Sassanid Empire Persians. Primarily a Christian medium of expression, Syriac had a fundamental cultural and literary influence on the development of Arabic, which largely replaced it towards the 14th century. Syriac remains the liturgical language of Syriac Christianity to this day.Syriac is a Middle Aramaic language and, as such, a language of the Northwestern branch of the Semitic family. It is written in the Syriac alphabet, a derivation of the Aramaic alphabet.".
- Syriac_language iso6392Code "syc".
- Syriac_language iso6393Code "syc".
- Syriac_language languageFamily Aramaic_language.
- Syriac_language languageFamily Central_Semitic_languages.
- Syriac_language languageFamily Northwest_Semitic_languages.
- Syriac_language languageFamily Semitic_languages.
- Syriac_language soundRecording Syriac_language__1.
- Syriac_language spokenIn Eastern_Arabia.
- Syriac_language spokenIn Upper_Mesopotamia.
- Syriac_language thumbnail Syriac_-_Estrangelo_Nisibin_Calligraphy.png?width=300.
- Syriac_language wikiPageExternalLink cal.huc.edu.
- Syriac_language wikiPageExternalLink about.
- Syriac_language wikiPageExternalLink page.php?item_id=script_detail&key=Syrc.
- Syriac_language wikiPageExternalLink dictionary.
- Syriac_language wikiPageExternalLink meltho.
- Syriac_language wikiPageExternalLink jsl_syriac_intro.htm.
- Syriac_language wikiPageID "59412".
- Syriac_language wikiPageLength "34868".
- Syriac_language wikiPageOutDegree "230".
- Syriac_language wikiPageRevisionID "707782937".
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Achaemenid_Empire.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Active_voice.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Adjective.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Aleph.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Alveolar_consonant.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Church_of_the_East.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Approximant_consonant.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Arabic.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Arabs.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Aramaic_alphabet.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Aramaic_language.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Arameans.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Asia.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Assyrian_Church_of_the_East.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Assyrian_Neo-Aramaic.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Assyrian_Pentecostal_Church.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Assyrian_homeland.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Assyrian_nationalism.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Assyrian_people.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Ayin.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Bet_(letter).
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Carl_Brockelmann.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Aramaic_languages.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Classical_languages.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Endangered_Afroasiatic_languages.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Bahrain.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Iraq.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Lebanon.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Syria.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Liturgical_languages.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ritual_languages.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Semitic_languages.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Syriac_Christianity.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Syriac_language.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Syriac_languages.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:World_Digital_Library_related.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Causative.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Central_Asia.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Central_Semitic_languages.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Chaldean_Catholic_Church.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Chaldean_Neo-Aramaic.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink China.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Christian.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Church_of_the_East.
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- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Close-mid_back_rounded_vowel.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Close-mid_front_unrounded_vowel.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Close_back_rounded_vowel.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Close_front_unrounded_vowel.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Close_vowel.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Corpus_Scriptorum_Christianorum_Orientalium.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Dagesh.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Dalet.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Dental_consonant.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Diphthong.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink East_Syrian_Rite.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Arabia.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Aramaic_languages.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Edessa.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Emphatic_consonant.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Ephrem_the_Syrian.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Fertile_Crescent.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Fricative_consonant.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Front_vowel.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Future_tense.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Genitive_case.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Gimel.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Glottal_consonant.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_aspect.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_case.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_conjugation.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_gender.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_person.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_tense.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Hadrians_Wall.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink He_(letter).
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Hebrew_language.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Heth.
- Syriac_language wikiPageWikiLink Infinitive.