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Preferred term

sycSyriac language  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Syriac ( ) is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from the 4th to the 8th centuries, the classical language of Edessa, preserved in a large body of Syriac literature.

Entry terms

  • Classical Syriac
  • Syriac, Classical

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • syc

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • syc

ISO 639-3 code

  • syc

Notation

  • syc

In other languages

  • Syriaque

    French

  • syriaque classique
  • Altsyrisch

    German

  • Syrische Sprache
  • Lingua siriaca

    Italian

  • siriaco classico
  • Língua siríaca

    Portuguese

  • siríaco clássico
  • Idioma siríaco

    Spanish

  • siríaco clásico

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/syc

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