Syriac-Estrangelo
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Estrangelo is the oldest form of the Syriac alphabet. It is no longer used for everyday writing, but it still appears in titles, headings, and liturgical books of the Syriac churches in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and India, and in modern scholarly editions of Syriac texts.
Estrangelo developed from the Aramaic alphabet and was the standard script of Syriac literature from about the 1st century A.D. Its name is often explained as coming from the Greek strongulos ("rounded"). After the Syriac churches divided in the 5th century, it gave rise to the two later forms of the script: Serto (Western Syriac) and Madnhaya (Eastern Syriac).
Estrangelo developed from the Aramaic alphabet and was the standard script of Syriac literature from about the 1st century A.D. Its name is often explained as coming from the Greek strongulos ("rounded"). After the Syriac churches divided in the 5th century, it gave rise to the two later forms of the script: Serto (Western Syriac) and Madnhaya (Eastern Syriac).
- Language Family
- Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic)
- Subgroup
- Semitic
- Branch
- Aramaic