 Even as a written language, it went extinct around the fourteenth century and was only identified or rediscovered as a distinct variety of Aramaic in the nineeenth century.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.