WRITINGS OF THE NESTORIANS.
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Estrangheli, and by a misnomer are called by Europeans Syro-Chaldaic. The alphabet used by the Syrian Jacobites differs from that of the Nestorians; but its shape plainly indicates a common origin from the Estrangheli. Gregory bar Hebraeus, called Abulpharaj, the greatest of the Monophysite doctors, is considered the author of the characters still in use among the Jacobites, and of their system of vowel and diacritical points, in which respect also it differs from that of the Nestorians.
