The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
SIL code: SMP
ISO 639-2: sem
| Population | (620 ethnic Samaritans; 1999 H. Mutzafi). |
| Region | West bank near Nablus and in Tel Aviv, Israel. Also spoken in Israel. |
| Alternate names | SAMARITAN HEBREW |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Canaanite. |
| Comments | They use Samaritan Hebrew mainly and Samaritan Aramaic secondarily as liturgical languages. About one-third live near Nablus and speak Palestinian Arabic as mother tongue. Others live near Tel Aviv and speak Hebrew as mother tongue. They call themselves 'Shamerim.' Samaritan-Hebrew script used. Samaritan religion, related to Judaism. Extinct. Bible 1853. |
