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Syriac (Unicode block)
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<p>Syriac is a <a href="/facts/Unicode_block/0RrzJWhE">Unicode block</a> containing characters for all forms of the <a href="/facts/Syriac_alphabet/dA2LyFax">Syriac alphabet</a>, including the <a href="/facts/Estrangela/dA2LyFax">Estrangela</a>, <a href="/facts/Serto/dA2LyFax">Serto</a>, <a href="/facts/Eastern_Syriac_alphabet/dA2LyFax">Eastern Syriac</a>, and the <a href="/facts/Christian_Palestinian_Aramaic/k3trQmlC">Christian Palestinian Aramaic</a> 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. </p><p>Additional Syriac letters used for writing the <a href="/facts/Malayalam/YLuvDWd3">Malayalam</a> language are encoded in the <a href="/facts/Syriac_Supplement/7ALX8sVr">Syriac Supplement</a> block. </p>