Index - Syriac John

܀ ܝܘܚܢܢ ܀
The Holy Gospel According to John
Syriac Peshitta Text
For Font information, see below on this page

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܀ ܝܘܚܢܢ ܀ John
	John Chapt 01 John Chapt 08 John Chapt 15 John Chapt 02 John Chapt 09 John Chapt 16 John Chapt 03 John Chapt 10 John Chapt 17 John Chapt 04 John Chapt 11 John Chapt 18 John Chapt 05 John Chapt 12 John Chapt 19 John Chapt 06 John Chapt 13 John Chapt 20 John Chapt 07 John Chapt 14 John Chapt 21
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Unicode Fonts for Syriac

For those with MS Windows operating systems, you can download a suitable Unicode font and install it. A list of available fonts can be found here (right-click on link to open in new window):
Syriac Unicode Fonts - listed by WAZU Japan.

Linux users will have a slightly different method of installing the fonts. Any Unicode font will display a default Syriac script. For best results however, we recommend using the following (free) fonts. Once installed, these fonts should automatically be displayed by your browser. We have tested this for Firefox 3.x browsers and assume other similar browsers will work fine.

Fonts: Examples and Test Page

You can use the chart below to test Syriac Font installation. Each sample text should look slightly different if all fonts are installed. If they are all the same (and bland) you are probably viewing a default Unicode style from your Operating System font (e.g. Arial, or Times New Roman etc.).

The font for our text in the following pages has been set up in the default order of the font samples highlighted in RED on this page. So if you prefer a specific font, only install the font you want. With all fonts installed, you should see Estranglo Midyat (the top font example).

The Meltho collection of Syriac OpenType fonts originally part of the XFree86 distribution, but which are licensed under terms incompatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines, and thus cannot be distributed as part of Debian. They must be downloaded and installed by the user. We installed these fonts on our Ubuntu Linux system, by simply using the Synaptic Packages Manager, searching for "font" and finding the Meltho package and installing it.

The Beth Mardutho Fonts: (< - - click this link to download)

Real Old Syriac:
(1) Estrangelo Midyat * thick very real natural (bad vowels) best overall
(...not on system, if same as 5 below)