Syriac alphabet
| Syriac alphabet | ||
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| Font | Abdschad | |
| languages | Aramaic ( Syriac , Assyrian-New Aramaic , Chaldean-New Aramaic , Turoyo ), Arabic ( Garschuni ) | |
| ancestry |
Egyptian hieroglyphs → Protosinaitic script → Phoenician alphabet → Aramaic alphabet → Syriac alphabet |
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| relative |
Sogdian alphabet Nabatean alphabet |
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| particularities | from right to left | |
| Unicode block | U + 0700 – U + 074F | |
| ISO 15924 | Syrc (general) Syre (Estrangelo) Syrj (Jacobite / Serto) Syrn (Nestorian / East Syriac ) |
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The Syriac script is a further development of the old Aramaic script .
Their oldest expression is the so-called Estrangelo or Estrangela. Syrian script has been used in two forms since the 5th century: the Eastern script style, also called Nestorian script, and the Western script style, also called Jacobite script or Serto.
The Syrian script was mainly used in the area of Syrian Christianity and to reproduce the Syrian language , which is an East-American dialect. However, a group of Palestinian Christians who were themselves speakers of a Western Aramaic dialect also used the Syriac script. Therefore, for a long time her works were included in the Syrian text corpus.
Consonants
Vowels
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Letter | Transcription | Surname | Name (syr.) | |||||
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| Serto | Estrangelo | East Syrian | |||||||
| ܰ ܱ ܲ |  |
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a | ftoḥo | ܦܬܳܚܳܐ |
| ܳ ܴ ܵ |  |
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O | zqofo | ܙܩܳܦܳܐ |
| ܶ ܷ ܸ ܹ |  |
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e | rboṣo | ܪܒܳܨܳܐ |
| ܺ ܻ ܼ |  |
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i | ḥboṣo | ܚܒܳܨܳܐ |
| ܽ ܾ ܿ |  |
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u | so so | ܥܨܳܨܳܐ |
See also
Web links
Commons : Syriac Alphabet - collection of images, videos, and audio files
