Syriac is a
Unicode block containing characters for all forms of the
Syriac alphabet, including the
Estrangela,
Serto,
Eastern Syriac, and the
Christian Palestinian Aramaic variants. It is used in Literary Syriac, Neo-Aramaic, and Arabic among Syriac-speaking Christians. It was used historically to write Armenian, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Malayalam.
Additional Syriac letters used for writing the
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry ( Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam wa ...
language are encoded in the
Syriac Supplement block.
Unicode chart
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Syriac block:
Character list
References
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Unicode blocks