Syriac

Conjugate Verbs

Facts

  • Language: Syriac
  • Alternate names: ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ leššānā Suryāyā
  • Language code: syc
  • Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, West Semitic, Central Semitic, Northwest Semitic, Aramaic, Imperial-Middle-Modern Aramaic, Middle-Modern Aramaic, Eastern Aramaic
  • Number of speakers: Extinct
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    Introduction

    Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Syriac became extinct in the 10th to 12th centuries. Still used as a literary secular language among followers of the churches listed, although rarely.

    Literature

    The Syrian churches (Eastern (Nestorian), Syrian Orthodox (Jacobite), Syrian Catholic (Melkite, Maronite) developed a vast literature based on the Edessa (currently Sanliurfa, southeastern Turkey) variety of the Syrian dialect. The Assyrian group (see Assyrian Neo-Aramaic in Iraq and elsewhere) separated denominationally from the Chaldean (see Chaldean Neo-Aramaic in Iraq) and Jacobite (see Turoyo in Turkey and Syria) in the Middle Ages.

    Neo-Eastern Aramaic languages spoken by Christians are often dubbed 'Neo-Syriac', although not directly descended from Syriac.

    The verb

    Sample verb: ܩܬܠ (qtl)

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