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Language code: syr

Technical information about ISO 639 language code syr

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The table below provides technical details for the Syriac language, designated by the syr code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

syr

Name

Syriac

Text direction

Right-to-Left

Language varieties
Western SyriacEastern Syriac
Related languages
Assyrian Neo-AramaicChaldean Neo-AramaicTuroyo (Surayt)Mandaic
Key facts
Classical branch of the Aramaic language family used since the 1st century CESurvives mainly as a liturgical and literary language for several Syriac Christian churchesEarliest major texts include the Peshitta Bible and hymns of Ephrem the SyrianWritten in three principal scripts—Estrangelo, Serto (Western) and Madnhaya (Eastern)Contributed loanwords to languages such as Arabic, Persian and Malayalam.
Sample phrase

ܫܠܡܐ ܐܝܟ ܐܢܬܐ؟

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Syriac language, identified by the code syr, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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