Talk:Samaritan Aramaic language

Others
Ok, from what I understand here, there is Aramaic as used by Arameans, Aramaic as used by Jews, and Aramaic as used by Samaritans.

Any others?

Gringo300 22:25, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, Aramaic as used by Mandaeans, see Mandaic language. --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) 09:39, 4 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I've been under the impression that Assyrians are a distinct people from Arameans, but from what I've been reading, it's hard to tell. From what I've read, modern day Assyrians speak some form of Aramaic, but from what I can tell, they aren't Jewish, Samaritan, or Mandean. Gringo300 (talk) 15:38, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * They are Christians. (Taivo (talk) 16:50, 20 July 2009 (UTC))

There are West Aramaeans (Syrian Christians, mostly Monophysite) and East Aramaeans. East Aramaeans in turn divide into Assyrians (who are Nestorian) and Chaldaeans (who are Roman Catholic but use a rite similar to the Nestorian). Does that help? --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) (talk) 13:58, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Samaritans and Jews
The Samaritans and the Jews are two different groups, although there is evidence for common ancestry. Is it really appropriate for the list of Jewish languages to appear at the bottom of this article? Perhaps Semitic Languages would be an appropriate substitute. 4.239.0.254 21:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

About my above comment: Apparently both Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic appear in the list/chart of Jewish languages. Maybe some further clarification should be included when these languages are listed there. 4.239.0.254 23:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Personally, I don't think it's accurate to call Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic Jewish languages. Gringo300 04:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Strictly that is right: Jews and Samaritans are two branches of the Israelite people and religion. However, to have a category "Israelite languages" would be very awkward, and linguistically the two Samaritan languages are very close to the strictly Jewish ones; though not Jewish languages, they are languages of Jewish interest.  To cut them out of the category would mean that they were not linked to from anywhere (or else drowned in a sea of Semitic languages including Arabic, Ethiopic, Assyrian and all the rest).  So I would recommend leaving things as they are for the sake of accessibility, even if it is not quite accurate. --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) 09:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

That transliteration isn't right
It has W as Beth/veth (Samaritans use B for both Beth/Veth and Waw,The opisite of Assyrian speakers which turn Bheth(bet without daghesh) into W

A grammar of the Samaritan language, with extracts and vocabulary ([1858?])
https://archive.org/details/grammarofsamarit00nichrich

https://archive.org/details/grammarofsamarit00nich

https://archive.org/details/cu31924077098808

Rajmaan (talk) 07:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

nativename
It states that it was written in the Samaritan alphabet, which has a different script in Unicode. But in the infobox, the name is written as "ארמית" in the Hebrew script of Unicode. Shouldn't it be replaced by the Samaritan script from Unicode, using the table from the Samaritan alphabetarticle? That would be "ࠀࠓࠌࠉࠕ" in the Samaritan script from Unicode. Liggliluff (talk) 13:36, 6 March 2020 (UTC)