Serṭo

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Serṭo is a cursive style of the Syriac alphabet used primarily in West Syriac Christian liturgical and literary traditions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Serṭo canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Syriac script style ⓘ
writing system variant ⓘ
alphabetType abjad ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Serto ⓘ
Serṭā ⓘ
associatedWith Maronite Church ⓘ
Syriac Catholic Church ⓘ
Syriac Orthodox Church ⓘ
West Syriac Rite ⓘ
contrastedWith East Syriac script (Madnhaya) ⓘ
linked to: East Syriac script

Estrangela ⓘ
culturalContext Christian Near Eastern tradition ⓘ
derivedFrom Estrangela script ⓘ
hasFeature connected letterforms ⓘ
contextual letter shapes ⓘ
diacritic vowel marks ⓘ
separate signs for Syriac diacritics ⓘ
hasLetterCount 22 consonant letters ⓘ
hasLigatures yes ⓘ
hasPunctuationSystem Syriac punctuation marks ⓘ
influencedBy earlier Syriac book hands ⓘ
primaryUsage West Syriac liturgical manuscripts ⓘ
West Syriac printed books ⓘ
region Levant ⓘ
linked to: Levant region

Upper Mesopotamia ⓘ
scriptCategory historical script ⓘ
scriptFamily Syriac alphabet ⓘ
scriptType cursive script ⓘ
scriptUsageStatus in continuous liturgical use ⓘ
standardizedIn West Syriac monastic scriptoria ⓘ
linked to: West Syriac script
supportsVocalization yes ⓘ
timePeriod medieval development ⓘ
unicodeBlock Syriac (U+0700–U+074F) ⓘ
usedBy Syriac-speaking Christians ⓘ
West Syriac scribes ⓘ
usedFor liturgical texts ⓘ
manuscript copying ⓘ
religious literature ⓘ
usedForLanguageFamily Aramaic languages ⓘ
linked to: Aramaic
usedIn Syriac Christianity ⓘ
linked to: Syriac Churches

West Syriac tradition ⓘ
writingDirection right-to-left script ⓘ
writingSystemOf Classical Syriac ⓘ
linked to: Syriac

Syriac language ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

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

Serto script → alsoKnownAs → Serṭo ⓘ