Explore: Samaritan Aramaic

boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Samaritan Aramaic was the dialect of Aramaic used by the Samaritans in their sacred and scholarly

of the Samaritan Pentateuch. For the Samaritans, Ancient Hebrew ceased to be a spoken everyday language. It was succeeded by Samaritan Aramaic, which

in several West Asian churches, as well as in Judaism, Samaritanism, and Mandaeism. The Aramaic language is now considered endangered, with several varieties

as the script of the Samaritan Pentateuch, of texts in Samaritan Hebrew, and of commentaries and translations in Samaritan Aramaic and occasionally Arabic

century, in Arabic and Aramaic) Samaritan Chronicle, Adler (Israel from the time of divine disfavor until the exile) Samaritan Chronicle, The Kitab al-Tarikh

derives from the Aramaic alphabet, in contrast to the modern Samaritan alphabet, which derives from Paleo-Hebrew. The letters in the Aramaic alphabet all

purposes, they also use Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic, both of which are written in the Samaritan script. According to Samaritan tradition, the position

Throughout their history, Samaritans have used translations of the Samaritan Pentateuch into Aramaic, Greek, and Arabic, as well as liturgical and exegetical works

mystical terminology. Mandaic is influenced by Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, Samaritan Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, in addition to Akkadian and Parthian. Classical

western branch, e.g. Jewish and Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Samaritan Aramaic. No Neo-Aramaic subgroup, however, could be considered a direct descendent