 No source gives it a name as a distinct dialect or language and all such names are modern scholarly inventions.Names like "Palestinian Syriac" and "Syropalestinian" reflect the fact that Palestinian Aramaic speakers often referred to their language as Syriac and made use of an alphabet based on the northern Syriac "ʾEsṭrangēlā" script.The terms "Christian Palestinian Aramaic" and "Melkite Aramaic" emphasise the confessional identity of the speakers and the distinctness from any Syriac variety of Aramaic.