Egypt: Syriac script. Mt. Sinai, Egypt, 9th c. MS in Syriac on vellum, from the Monastery of St Catherine, Mt Sinai

Syriac (ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ Leššānā Suryāyā) is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent and Eastern Arabia.

Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century CE after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from the 4th to the 8th centuries, the classical language of Edessa, preserved in a large body of Syriac literature.

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