Samaritan Hebrew
E467833
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 (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samaritan Hebrew canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4748395 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Samaritan Hebrew Context triple: [Mount Gerizim area, languageCommunities, Samaritan Hebrew]
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A.
Hebrew
Hebrew is an ancient Northwest Semitic language that became the liturgical and historical language of the Jewish people and was later revived as the modern spoken language of the State of Israel.
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B.
Edomite language
The Edomite language was an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the ancient Edomites in the region south of the Kingdom of Judah.
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C.
Palestinian Aramaic dialects
Palestinian Aramaic dialects are a group of Western Aramaic varieties historically spoken in Roman and Byzantine-era Palestine, particularly among Jewish and Christian communities, and used in religious, legal, and literary texts.
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D.
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic is a dialect of Aramaic historically used by Jewish communities in Babylonia, most notably as the primary language of the Babylonian Talmud and related rabbinic literature.
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E.
Aramaic
Aramaic is an ancient Semitic language historically spoken in the Near East, notable as a lingua franca of empires and as the everyday language of parts of the biblical and early Christian world.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Samaritan Hebrew Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Hebrew
Hebrew is an ancient Northwest Semitic language that became the liturgical and historical language of the Jewish people and was later revived as the modern spoken language of the State of Israel.
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B.
Edomite language
The Edomite language was an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the ancient Edomites in the region south of the Kingdom of Judah.
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C.
Palestinian Aramaic dialects
Palestinian Aramaic dialects are a group of Western Aramaic varieties historically spoken in Roman and Byzantine-era Palestine, particularly among Jewish and Christian communities, and used in religious, legal, and literary texts.
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D.
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic is a dialect of Aramaic historically used by Jewish communities in Babylonia, most notably as the primary language of the Babylonian Talmud and related rabbinic literature.
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E.
Aramaic
Aramaic is an ancient Semitic language historically spoken in the Near East, notable as a lingua franca of empires and as the everyday language of parts of the biblical and early Christian world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canaanite language
ⓘ
Hebrew language variety ⓘ Northwest Semitic language ⓘ literary language ⓘ liturgical language ⓘ |
| associatedReligion | Samaritanism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedText |
Samaritan Pentateuch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Samaritan liturgical poetry ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Biblical Hebrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coexistsWith |
Modern Hebrew
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Palestinian Arabic NERFINISHED ⓘ Samaritan Aramaic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
Israel
ⓘ
State of Palestine ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Biblical Hebrew dialects
ⓘ
ancient Hebrew ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
Biblical Hebrew
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Modern Hebrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
distinct pronunciation of guttural consonants
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distinct vowel system from Tiberian Hebrew ⓘ influence from Aramaic vocabulary ⓘ lexical archaisms ⓘ morphological archaisms ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Second Temple period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISOStatus | has no separate ISO 639-3 code (treated under Hebrew) ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Afroasiatic languages
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Semitic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfNativeSpeakers | 0 ⓘ |
| orthographyType | consonantal writing ⓘ |
| phonologyInfluencedBy | Samaritan Aramaic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
Torah reading
ⓘ
liturgical use ⓘ piyyutim ⓘ prayers ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| region |
Holon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mount Gerizim NERFINISHED ⓘ Nablus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptOrigin | Paleo-Hebrew script ⓘ |
| scriptType | abjad ⓘ |
| status |
liturgical language
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non-vernacular language ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Canaanite languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northwest Semitic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAs |
chanting language
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reading language ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Samaritan community
ⓘ
Samaritans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInRitual | Passover sacrifice on Mount Gerizim ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Samaritan script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Subject: Samaritan Hebrew Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.