Samaritan Hebrew

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Samaritan Hebrew is the liturgical and literary language of the Samaritan community, preserving an ancient form of Hebrew distinct from both Biblical and Modern Hebrew.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Samaritan Hebrew canonical 12
Samaritan Hebrew (liturgical) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Canaanite language
Hebrew language variety
Northwest Semitic language
literary language
liturgical language
associatedReligion Samaritanism
associatedText Samaritan Pentateuch
Samaritan liturgical poetry
closelyRelatedTo Biblical Hebrew
linked to: Hebrew
coexistsWith Modern Hebrew
linked to: Hebrew

Palestinian Arabic
linked to: Levantine Arabic

Samaritan Aramaic
country Israel
State of Palestine
developedFrom Biblical Hebrew dialects
ancient Hebrew
distinctFrom Biblical Hebrew
linked to: Hebrew

Modern Hebrew
linked to: Hebrew
hasFeature distinct pronunciation of guttural consonants
distinct vowel system from Tiberian Hebrew
influence from Aramaic vocabulary
lexical archaisms
morphological archaisms
historicalPeriod Second Temple period
ISOStatus has no separate ISO 639-3 code (treated under Hebrew)
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
Semitic languages
numberOfNativeSpeakers 0
orthographyType consonantal writing
phonologyInfluencedBy Samaritan Aramaic
primaryUse Torah reading
liturgical use
piyyutim
prayers
religious texts
region Holon
Mount Gerizim
linked to: Mount Gerizim area

Nablus
scriptOrigin Paleo-Hebrew script
scriptType abjad
status liturgical language
non-vernacular language
subfamily Canaanite languages
Northwest Semitic languages
linked to: Northwest Semitic
usedAs chanting language
reading language
usedBy Samaritan community
Samaritans
usedInRitual Passover sacrifice on Mount Gerizim
writingSystem Samaritan script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Samaritanism languageUsedInLiturgy Samaritan Hebrew
Mount Gerizim area languageCommunities Samaritan Hebrew
Samaritan script usedForLanguage Samaritan Hebrew
Samaritans language Samaritan Hebrew
Samaritans scripturalLanguage Samaritan Hebrew
Samaritans of Shechem languageTradition Samaritan Hebrew
Samaritans of Shechem liturgicalLanguage Samaritan Hebrew
Kiryat Luza languageUsed Samaritan Hebrew (liturgical)
linked to: Samaritan Hebrew
Samaritan Pentateuch language Samaritan Hebrew
Samaritan liturgy language Samaritan Hebrew
Samaritan Aramaic influencedBy Samaritan Hebrew
Samaritan calendar language Samaritan Hebrew
Shamerim scripturalLanguage Samaritan Hebrew