Noto Sans Syriac Western is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) Western (Serṭā) design for texts in the Middle Eastern Syriac script.
Noto Sans Syriac Western contains 296 glyphs, 19 OpenType features, and supports 150 characters from 5 Unicode blocks: Syriac, Arabic, Basic Latin, Combining Diacritical Marks, Latin-1 Supplement.
Syriac (ܐܠܦ ܒܝܬ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ) is a Middle Eastern abjad, written right-to-left. Was used in West Asia for Syriac (now only used in the Syrian church), and also Aramaic, Neo-Aramaic, Turoyo/Surayt. Attested in 6 CE. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on ScriptSource, Unicode, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, r12a.