Syriac alphabet

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The Syriac alphabet is a historical Semitic writing system used primarily for the Syriac language and Christian liturgical texts, derived from earlier Aramaic scripts.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Syriac script 31
Syriac alphabet canonical 21
Syriac Alaph 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Semitic script
abjad
historical writing system
associatedWithLiturgicalLanguage Syriac
surface form: Classical Syriac
associatedWithReligion Christianity
derivedFrom Aramaic alphabet
direction right-to-left
hasDiacriticsFor gemination
syllable division
vowels
hasNumberOfLetters 22
hasVariant East Syriac script
Estrangela script
Serto script
West Syriac script
influenced Garshuni writing
Mandaic alphabet
Manichaean script
Old Uyghur alphabet
Perso-Arabic script traditions
Sogdian alphabet
ISO15924Code Syrc
regionOfUse Levant region
surface form: Levant

Mesopotamia
Upper Mesopotamia
relatedTo Arabic alphabet
Hebrew alphabet
Phoenician alphabet
scriptFamily Aramaic alphabet (historically)
surface form: Aramaic alphabet
timePeriodOfUse 1st millennium CE
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
type consonant-based script
unicodeBlock Syriac
usedByCommunity Assyrians
surface form: Assyrian people

Chaldean Catholic Church
Chaldeans
surface form: Chaldean people

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

Maronite Christianity
surface form: Maronite Church

Maronite Christianity
surface form: Maronites

Syriac Catholic Church
Syriacs
surface form: Syriac Christians

Syriac Orthodox Church
usedFor Christian liturgical texts
Syriac Churches
surface form: Syriac Christianity

biblical manuscripts
hymnography
philosophical texts
scientific texts
theological literature
writingDirection horizontal
writingSystemOf Syriac
surface form: Syriac language

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (53)

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

Madnhaya script derivedFrom Syriac alphabet
West Syriac liturgical tradition primaryScript Syriac alphabet
this entity surface form: Syriac script
Abjad exampleScripts Syriac alphabet
this entity surface form: Syriac script