Samaritan Aramaic language

Samaritan Aramaic
Samaritan Aramaic
ࠀࠓࠌࠉࠕ Arāmît
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA\|[arɑmiθ], [arɑmit],; [ɑrɑmɑjɑ], [ɔrɔmɔjɔ]]]
Region	Israel and Palestine, predominantly in Samaria and Holon.
Extinct	by 12th century; liturgical use
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

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.

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