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Garshuni or Karshuni are Arabic language writings that use the Syriac alphabet.

Garshuni originated in the seventh century AD, when Arabic was becoming the dominant spoken language in the Fertile Crescent, but Arabic script was not yet fully developed and widely read. There is evidence that writing Arabic in Garshuni influenced the style of modern Arabic script. After this initial period, Garshuni writing has continued to the present day among some Syriac Christian communities in the Arabic-speaking regions of the Levant and Mesopotamia.

The Syriac alphabet has three principal varieties:

• The estrangelâ script (the classical Syriac script),
• The madnhâyâ script (the eastern Syriac script, often called 'Assyrian' or 'Nestorian'),
• The sertâ script (the western Syriac script, often called 'Jacobite' or 'Maronite').

The Syriac alphabet is extended by use of diacritics to write Arabic Garshuni.

Occasionally, other languages such as Turkish were written in the Syriac alphabet, and these are sometimes also referred to as Garshunis.

See also

• Syriac language
• Arabic language

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