Syriac | |
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ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ Leššānā Suryāyā | |
![]() Leššānā Suryāyā in written Syriac (Esṭrangelā script) | |
Pronunciation | lɛʃʃɑːnɑː surjɑːjɑː |
Region | Upper Mesopotamia, Eastern Arabia |
Era | 1st century AD; Dramatically declined as a vernacular language after the 14th century; Developed into Northeastern Neo-Aramaic and Central Neo-Aramaic languages after the 12th century.[1] |
Early form | |
Syriac abjad | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | syc Classical Syriac |
ISO 639-3 | syc Classical Syriac |
Glottolog | clas1252 |
Syriac (ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ leššānā Suryāyā) is an Eastern Aramaic language. It was spoken long ago in the Fertile Crescent. Most of the Aramaic writing that survives from the second to the eighth century AD is Syriac.