Syriac language

Syriac
	ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ Leššānā Suryāyā
	; Leššānā Suryāyā in written Syriac (Esṭrangelā script)
Pronunciation	/lɛʃʃɑːnɑː surjɑːjɑː/
Native to	Mesopotamia, Aram, Roman Syria
Ethnicity	Assyrian
Extinct	Disappeared as a vernacular language after the 14th century.
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramaic Eastern Aramaic Syriac; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Syriac abjad
Language codes
ISO 639-2	syc
ISO 639-3	syc
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Syriac (ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ leššānā Suryāyā) is an Eastern Aramaic language. It was spoken long ago in the Fertile Crescent. In the Middle East from the second to the eighth century AD, a lot was written Syriac.

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