leššānā Suryāyā Syriac language Syriac developed from Old Syriac,an Aramaic dialect spoken around the city of Edessa in Osroene.It rose to prominence during the first century century Ad. It came to be a major trade, literary, liturgical and a lingua franca of the Middle East,in the so-called fertile Crescent. The vast majority of the text corpus in Aramaic is in Classical Syriac. By the 8th century A.D. it was mostly replaced by Arabic and by 1200 AD ceased to be a spoken language,used only for liturgical purposes by Syriac Christians up to this day.In 1200 AD and onwards it started evolving into some Neo-Aramaic vernaculars. The Syriac alphabet . Syriac was written in Syriac Estrangelo script ,which was the classical script for the language.In 5 AD after the split of Syriac Church into Eastern and Western the Nestorian and Serto versions of Estrangelo evolved and they were both used for writting Syriac. In the 3rd century AD the translation of the New Testament was com...