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 ⓘ