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Syriac
dialect of Middle Aramaic
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Wikidata (Q33538) ↗
Details
Instance of
natural language
,
sacred language
,
historical language
Subclass of
Aramaic
Country
Turkey
Religion
Chaldean Catholic Church
,
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
,
Ancient Church of the East
,
Assyrian Pentecostal Church
category for music in this language
Category:Syriac-language music
described by source
Nordisk familjebok
,
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
,
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
different from
Syrian Arabic
entry in abbreviations table
сир.
Ethnologue language status
9 Second language only
has grammatical gender
masculine
,
feminine
indigenous to
Şanlıurfa Province
native label
ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ
number of speakers, writers, or signers
575000
studied by
Syriac studies
topic has template
Q104771328
topic's main category
Category:Syriac language
Wikimedia language code
syc
writing system
Syriac alphabet
,
Estrangela
Works in this collection
(10)
Diatessaron
—
The Nabataean Agriculture
300
Letter to the catholicus Denha
—
Chronicle
1286
Chronicle
710
Ecclesiastical history
—
Lives of the Eastern saints
—
Chronicle
—
History
888
Ecclesiastical history
—
Connected on Wikidata
Subject of
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Syriac Language
Compendious Syriac Grammar
Depicted in
Inscription H2.4 from the Temple of Atargatis, Dura-Europos
Authority files
Library of Congress ↗
GND ↗
BnF ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica ↗