Syriac Language - History

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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