A review of the sites on the web indicates that there is some confusion as to what exactly is meant by the word Syriac. The safest course is to select an authority like the [Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/)] and be guided by its decisions. The relationship among the Semitic languages and Syriac can be seen in the following tree of Semitic languages.
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