No source gives CPA a name as a distinct dialect or language and all such names are modern scholarly inventions.[1] Names like "Palestinian Syriac" and "Syropalestinian Aramaic"[lower-alpha 2] 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.[5] Egeria, in the account of her pilgrimage to Palestine at the end of the 4th century, refers to Syriac,[8] which was probably what is now Christian Palestinian Aramaic.[9]