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{{Infobox language
| name             = Syriac
| nativename       = {{rtl-lang |syr|ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ}} ''{{transl|syr|Leššānā Suryāyā}}''
| pronunciation    = [[Help:IPA/Aramaic|lɛʃʃɑːnɑː surjɑːjɑː]]
| image            = Syriac - Estrangelo Nisibin Calligraphy.png
| image_size       = 200px
| imagecaption     = '''Leššānā Suryāyā''' in written Syriac (Esṭrangelā script)
| 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.
| ref              = <ref name=Angold391>{{Harvnb |Angold|2006|pp=391}}</ref>
| familycolor      = Afro-Asiatic
| fam2             = [[Semitic languages|Semitic]]
| fam3             = [[Central Semitic languages|Central Semitic]]
| fam4             = [[Northwest Semitic languages|Northwest Semitic]]
| fam5             = [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]]
| fam6             = [[Eastern Aramaic languages|Eastern Aramaic]]
| script           = [[Syriac alphabet|Syriac abjad]]
| iso2             = syc
| iso2comment      = Classical Syriac
| iso3             = syc
| iso3comment      = Classical Syriac
| glotto           = clas1252
| glottorefname    = Classical Syriac
| notice           = IPA
| ancestor         = [[Old Syriac]]
}}
[[File:Aramaic alphabet.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Aramaic alphabet|Syriac Aramaic alphabet]]]]
{{Special characters
| image      = Shlama.svg
| alt        = 
| link       = http://www.bethmardutho.org/meltho/
| special    = Syriac text, written from right to left in a cursive style with some letters joined
| fix        = Help:Multilingual_support#Syriac/Aramaic script
| characters = [[Syriac script]]
| error      = unjoined Syriac letters or other symbols
}}
[[File:Syriac Sertâ book script.jpg|thumb|250px|An [[11th century|eleventh-century]] Syriac [[manuscript]].]]
'''Syriac''' ({{lang|syr|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 [[2nd century|second]] to the [[8th century|eighth century AD]] is Syriac.

==References==
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== Other websites ==
{{InterWiki|code=arc}}
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* [[:en:Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium]] at English Wikipedia
* [http://www.bethmardutho.org/ Beth Mardutho — The Syriac Institute]
* [http://syrcom.cua.edu/hugoye/ Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies]
* [http://www.morephrem.com/catalog_Dayro.htm Bar Hebraeus Verlag (catalogue of Syriac books)]{{Dead link|date=February 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/c-7-syriac.aspx/ Gorgias Press (catalogue of Syriac books)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070910054702/http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/c-7-syriac.aspx/ |date=2007-09-10 }}
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=syc Ethnologue report on Syriac]
* [http://www.beith-morounoye.org/ The Syriac Maronites — Beith Souryoye Morounoye]
*[http://chaldeanocr.com/ Chaldean OCR] - An optical character recognition software to extract text from images and PDFs
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