For the language with ISO code smp, see Samaritan Hebrew.
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Samaritan Aramaic
ࠀࠓࠌࠉࠕArāmît
Pronunciation
[arɑmiθ],[arɑmit], [ɑrɑmɑjɑ],[ɔrɔmɔjɔ]
Region
Israel and Palestine, predominantly in Samaria and Holon.
Extinct
by 12th century; liturgical use[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Aramaic
Western
Palestinian Aramaic
Samaritan Aramaic
Early forms
Proto-Afroasiatic
Proto-Semitic
Old Aramaic
Middle Aramaic
Palestinian Aramaic
Writing system
Samaritan alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-2
sam
ISO 639-3
sam
Glottolog
sama1314
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Samaritan Aramaic, or Samaritan, was the dialect of Aramaic used by the Samaritans in their sacred and scholarly literature. This should not be confused with the Samaritan Hebrew language of the Scriptures. Samaritan Aramaic ceased to be a spoken language some time between the 10th and the 12th centuries, with Samaritans switching to Palestinian Arabic as their vernacular language.
In form it resembles the Aramaic of the Targumim, and is written in the Samaritan alphabet.
Important works written in Samaritan include the translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch in the form of the targum paraphrased version. There are also legal, exegetical and liturgical texts, though later works of the same kind were often written in Arabic.
^Samaritan Aramaic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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