ISO 639-3 · sycsyc
Afroasiatic family · extinct or historical language
Syriac
ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ
Syriac is an extinct or historical language of the Northwest Semitic branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Turkey. Wikidata counts about 575,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “dialect of Middle Aramaic”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
syc- Glottocode
clas1252- Family
- Afroasiatic
- Centre point
- 37.05, 41.25
- Wikipedia
- 93 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
2scripts
5levels in the tree
9EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Syriac · ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ |
|---|---|
| Also called | Classical Syriac, Syriac Aramaic, Syriac language, syc, Syrian language |
| All speakers | 575,000 |
| Written in | Syriac alphabet, Estrangela |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
| Kind | extinct or historical language |
Vitality
EGIDS 9 Second language only9
Dormant or extinct. No fluent first-language speakers remain — EGIDS 9 and 10.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Afroasiatic to Syriac
The branches above Syriac, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Turkey
araArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeturTurkishTurkic · 88.1 m1 · NationalapcLevantine ArabicAfroasiatic · 44 mazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafeapcNorth Levantine ArabicAfroasiatic · 24.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkurKurdishIndo-European · 21 mSafeazbSouth AzerbaijaniTurkic · 14.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkmrKurmanjiIndo-European · 14.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkazKazakhTurkic · 13.2 m1 · NationaluigUyghurEastern Karluk · 10.4 m2 · Provincial