Samaritan Hebrew

Samaritan Hebrew
Samaritan Hebrew
ࠏࠁࠓࠉࠕ‎ Îbrit
Pronunciation	[iːbrit]
Region	Israel and Palestine, predominantly in Nablus and Holon
Extinct	c. 2nd century; survives in liturgical use
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Central Northwest Canaanite South Hebrew Biblical Hebrew Samaritan Hebrew; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Samaritan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	smp
Glottolog	sama1313
Linguasphere	12-AAB
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Samaritan Hebrew (Samaritan Hebrew: ࠏࠨࠁࠬࠓࠪࠉࠕ, romanized: ʿÎbrit) is a reading tradition used liturgically by the Samaritans for reading the Ancient Hebrew language of the Samaritan Pentateuch.

For the Samaritans, Ancient Hebrew ceased to be a spoken everyday language. It was succeeded by Samaritan Aramaic, which itself ceased to be a spoken language sometime between the 10th and 12th centuries and was succeeded by Levantine Arabic (specifically, the Samaritan variety of Palestinian Arabic.

The phonology of Samaritan Hebrew is very similar to that of Samaritan Arabic and is used by the Samaritans in prayer.^[2] Today, the spoken vernacular among Samaritans is evenly split between Modern Hebrew and Samaritan Arabic, depending on whether they reside in Holon or Kiryat Luza

^ Samaritan Hebrew at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Ben-Ḥayyim 2000, p. 29.

[e18-1] Samaritan Hebrew at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[FOOTNOTEBen-Ḥayyim200029-2] Ben-Ḥayyim 2000, p. 29.

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Samaritan Hebrew
ࠏࠁࠓࠉࠕ‎ Îbrit
Pronunciation	[iːbrit]
Region	Israel and Palestine, predominantly in Nablus and Holon
Extinct	c. 2nd century^[1] survives in liturgical use
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Central Northwest Canaanite South Hebrew Biblical Hebrew Samaritan Hebrew
Writing system	Samaritan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`smp`
Glottolog	`sama1313`
Linguasphere	`12-AAB`
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