Plane BMP Assigned 77 code points | Scripts Syriac Unused 3 reserved code points | |
Range U+0700..U+074F
(80 code points) Major alphabets Estrangela
Serto or West Syriac
Eastern Syriac
Garshuni (Arabic)
Neo-Aramaic | ||
Syriac is a Unicode block containing characters for all forms of the Syriac script, 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.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Syriac block:
References
Syriac (Unicode block) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA