Syriac Alphabet

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Tackling the “Impossible”: Ending Violence

Dissident Voice 26 Apr 2019

It is true that violence is virtually ubiquitous, has a near-infinite variety of manifestations and, at its most grotesque (as nuclear war or run-away climate catastrophe), even threatens human extinction in the near-term ... Unfortunately for David, author of Waging Peace ... From our Aramaic alphabet came the Latin, Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew alphabets.

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Ararat-Eskijian Museum Present a Lecture on Armenian-Syriac Relations

Asbarez 25 Oct 2017

In the pre-alphabet oral period of preaching Christianity in Armenia, Syriac played an important role as a medium through which biblical teachings and liturgical doctrine were transmitted to the populace untrained in the new faith ... After the founding of the Armenian alphabet, the ...

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Can Christians stay in the Middle East now that they are being persecuted for their ...

The Independent 12 Oct 2017

The Virgin holds a scroll in her hand upon which the words are written in Greek and Estrangelo, the oldest version of the Syriac alphabet.

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A language of poetry and wit that's been hijacked by terrorists

The National 21 Dec 2016

"Three people from the tribe of Tayy put the letters of the Arabic alphabet and measured the Arabic dialogue on Syriac tone ... Called Huroof (meaning letters in Arabic) and Mu'alim Al Huroof (alphabet teacher), it teaches words such as saif (sword) and dabbaba (tank) and includes ...

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The European School Helping Migrant Kids Feel at Home

The Atlantic 23 Mar 2016

The Swedish flag flies in front of a house near Södertälje. Cathal McNaughton / Reuters. Shabo Rhawi is clearly vexed during our first meeting ... Instead, the conversation soon turns from the Syriac alphabet to crisis ... The deputy prime minister, Åsa Romson, cried as she made the announcement at a press conference ... “I think it’s sad ... * * *.

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2015 Limited Edition Perrier Inspired by Street Art

The Malta Independent 20 Oct 2015

L'Atlas. This collaboration showcases a uniquely distinctive style of street art ... the bubbles ... A modified form of old Syriac, it is the oldest calligraphic form of the Arabic scripts), the Latin alphabet and Chinese ideograms to which he added his own innate sense of the pure and the simple ...  . .

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It will be tragic if the Assyrians leave the region

TheNational 01 Mar 2015

They spread the Syriac alphabet, in which they wrote Aramaic, to the Uighurs and the Mongols (the Mongols still use it today) and were allowed to debate with the caliph himself on points of religion.

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The secret history of Sequoya's Cherokee Syllabary

The Examiner 27 Nov 2012

His original symbols were identical to letters in alphabets used by Christians and Jews in the Middle East during the Late Medieval Period ... Sequoya’s original symbols can be found in the Syriac alphabets used by Christians and Jews in Turkey, Armenia, Mesopotamia and the Kingdom of Georgia during the Middle Ages.

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The Creation Myth {5}

The Examiner 28 Apr 2009

  Feed. Cont. Part IV CAESAR EROS. iv) King Aretas IV of Petra. . A handsome young Roman clean-shaven. on many coins from 9 BC to 40 CE. was stamped indelibly south and east. of Rome and Africa and uneven ... in Nabataea north of Arabia ... Nabataean and Syriac dialects. were written in Aramaic alphabets, ... And ... .

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Pen Ultimate / Quality, not quantity

Ha'aretz 08 Nov 2005

Demetrius' notion that the laws of the Jews are worth transcribing - "in the country of the Jews they use a peculiar alphabet and speak a peculiar dialect. They are supposed to use the Syriac tongue, but this is not the case; their language is quite different" - led to an ...

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No more show of miracles

Dawn 21 Dec 2001

Had Prophet Abraham, whom the Quran calls 'Imamun Naas' (leader of mankind), the founder of the Syriac civilisation four thousand years ago, not survived, the human society would not have been what it is now ... History')."the Syriac civilisation has three great facts to its credit.