History
The history of Syriac can be divided into three distinct periods:
- Old Syriac (the language of the kingdom of Osroene),
- Middle Syriac (ܟܬܒܢܝܐ Kṯāḇānāyâ: Literary Syriac), which divided into:
- Eastern Middle Syriac (the literary and ecclesiastical language of Chaldean, Syro-Malabar and Assyrian Christians),
- Western Middle Syriac (the literary and ecclesiastical language of Syriac and Maronite Christians).
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