Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — Syriac Language. [ARTICLE]

Syriac Language.

Syriac is one of the three groups of languages into which the old Aramaic of Assyria and Babylonia was developed, the other groups being the Chaldaic and the Nabatean-Safiean. The Syriac is emphatically a Christian literature language, the Bible was translated into it as was a deal of writing from the fourth to the tenth century, and it, instead of Latin, is the liturgical language of the Roman Catholics of Lebanon in Syria today. The Syro-Chaldaic is a variant of the Syriac, combining features o£ both the Syriac and Chaldaic groups. It is found in use in Kurdistan and the Lake Urmia districts.