Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. language-related concepts
5. [languages and writing systems]
6. [languages and writing systems by specific type]
7. [temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems]

Anotations

Scope note:

Dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent and Eastern Arabia, dating to at least the 4th century BCE as a spoken language. It is known as a script from the 1st century CE. Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from the 4th to the 8th centuries.