Syriac language

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Aramaic (ארמית, Arāmît): The Aramaic alphabet was adaptaed from the Phoenician alphabet during the 8th century BC and was used to write the Aramaic language until about 600 AD. The Aramaic alphabet was adapted to write quite a few other languages, and developed into a number of new alphabets, including the Hebrew square script and cursive script, Nabataean, Syriac, Palmyrenean, Mandaic, Sogdian, Mongolian and probably the Old Turkic script. (...)

Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, 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. Syriac is a Middle Aramaic language.

The Syriac alphabet developed from the Aramaic alphabet and was used mainly to write the Syriac language from about the 2nd century BC. There are a number of different forms of the Syriac alphabet: Esṭrangelā (ܐܣܛܪܢܓܠܐ), Serṭā (ܣܪܛܐ) and Madnḥāyā (ܡܕܢܚܝܐ). (...)

This is my own creation of Syriac Aramaic Calligraphy in Serto Alphabet. It is read: Qadishath Aloho, qadishath khayelthono, qadishath lomoyutho; Moryo Alohan Moryo khad haw; Abo w-Bro w-Rukho d-Qu…

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"Now Mary Magdalene came to the grave early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, and she saw that the stone was removed from the grave." John 20:1 This is taken from a Syriac manuscript that was written in the 6th century. Syriac is an ancient dialect of Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke and preached in.

Have you ever paused to think about the letters you’re reading right now? The alphabet is so much more than […]

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Gorgeous Estrangela display script from CFMM 420, a 15th-c. eastern Xtian Syriac ms. from Church of Forty Martyrs, Mardin, Turkey - containing ascetic texts by Ephrem, Evagrius, Isaac (Bishop of Nineveh). EXPLORE in vHMML Reading Room: https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/502161 #vHMMLalphabetics

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