the Syriac Estrangelo Aramaic alphabet Estrangelo is the oldest of the Syriac scripts used to write Classical Syriac which stopped being widely used since the 10th century. Nowadays some scholarly publications,titles and inscriptions are written in the Estrangelo.Its' name comes from Greek and it means 'rounded'.It later evolved into the cursive Serto -the Western Syriac script Estrangelo did not use vowel diacritics. They were used later in some cases. In the following image I have put some letters together that look alike for ease of learning them. But two later versions of the Syriac alphabet (Serto and Madnkhaya) that evolved later did use vowel signs. Two vowel systems developed,the western based on Greek vowels under the Byzantines for Serto and the eastern under the Persian Sassanids for Madnkhaya which used dots. More on vowels in Syriac Aramaic here. Now let's give it a try to write the Syriac Estrangelo alphabet. Apart from Syriac various languages use...