Madnhaya script

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The Madnhaya script is a modern cursive form of the Syriac alphabet used primarily by Assyrian and Chaldean Christian communities in liturgical and literary contexts.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Madnhaya script canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Syriac script variant
writing system
associatedWith Assyrian Church of the East
Chaldean Catholic Church
Syriac Christianity
linked to: Syriac Churches
derivedFrom Syriac alphabet
hasFeature contextual letter forms
diacritic vowel marks
joining behavior between letters
languageWritten Neo-Aramaic languages
Syriac language
primaryUse literary texts
liturgical texts
region Mesopotamia
Middle East
relatedScript Estrangela script
Serto script
linked to: Serto
religiousContext Christianity
scriptCategory Semitic scripts
scriptFamily Syriac alphabet
scriptStandard encoded in Unicode
scriptStyle cursive
scriptType abjad
unicodeBlock Syriac
usedBy Assyrian Christian communities
Chaldean Christian communities
usedIn liturgical manuscripts
modern Syriac publications
printed religious books
writingDirection right-to-left

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Estrangela script hasDerivative Madnhaya script
Salamas dialect scriptVariant Madnhaya script