Syriac

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Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that became a major literary and liturgical language of early Eastern Christianity and the Syriac Church tradition.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Middle Aramaic language
classical language
dialect
literary language
liturgical language
developedFrom Aramaic
surface form: Old Aramaic
era Syriac self-linksurface differs
surface form: Middle Aramaic period
firstAttested 1st century CE
floruit 4th century CE
5th century CE
6th century CE
hasDialect East Syriac script
surface form: Eastern Syriac

Syriac self-linksurface differs
surface form: Western Syriac
importantAuthor Aphrahat
Ephrem the Syrian
Jacob of Serugh
Narsai
importantTextualTradition Peshitta
influenced Arabic literature
Armenian Christian literature
Christian Arabic
Georgian Christian literature
ISO639-2Code syc
ISO639-3Code syc
languageFamily Afroasiatic
Aramaic
Semitic
liturgicalLanguageOf Assyrian Church of the East
surface form: Ancient Church of the East

Assyrian Church of the East
Chaldean Catholic Church
Maronite Christianity
surface form: Maronite Church

Syriac Catholic Church
Syriac Orthodox Church
region Edessa
Mesopotamia
surface form: Northern Mesopotamia

Edessa
surface form: Osroene

Mesopotamia
surface form: Upper Mesopotamia
religiousTradition Christianity
Syriac Rite
surface form: Syriac Christianity
scriptDirection right-to-left
standardForm Syriac self-linksurface differs
surface form: Classical Syriac
status classical liturgical language
no longer a vernacular in its classical form
subclassOf Afroasiatic language
Aramaic language
Semitic language
usedFor biblical translation
hymnography
liturgical texts
patristic writings
theological literature
usedIn Assyrian Church of the East
surface form: Ancient Church of the East

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

Eastern Christianity
Maronite Christianity
surface form: Maronite Church

Syriac Catholic Church
Syriac Rite
surface form: Syriac Christianity

Syriac Orthodox Church
writingSystem Aramaic alphabet (historically)
surface form: Syriac alphabet
writingSystemUnicodeBlock Syriac (U+0700–U+074F)
writingSystemVariant East Syriac script
Estrangela script
West Syriac script

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

Salamas dialect sharesLexiconWith Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Salamas dialect hasAncestor Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Tyari dialect linguisticAncestor Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Jilu dialect lexicalSource Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Nochiya dialect hasAncestor Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Qochanis dialect languageAncestor Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Suret historicalAncestor Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Sureth hasDialect Syriac
this entity surface form: Iraqi Koine Sureth
Sureth historicalAncestor Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
West Syriac script writingSystemOf Syriac
this entity surface form: Syriac language
Urhay usedLanguage Syriac
Orhay culture Syriac
Serto script usedFor Syriac
this entity surface form: Syriac language
Serto script usedFor Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Serto script UnicodeBlock Syriac
East Syriac rite usesLiturgicalLanguage Syriac
this entity surface form: Syriac language
East Syriac rite usesLiturgicalLanguage Syriac
this entity surface form: Classical Syriac
Syriac medical tradition usesLanguage Syriac
this entity surface form: Syriac language
Abjad typicalLanguages Syriac
John of Ephesus wroteIn Syriac
this entity surface form: Syriac language
Living Gospel language Syriac