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The Samaritan language proper is a Palestinian Aramaic dialect, differing only slightly from the other dialects of Aramaic spoken in Syria, but preserving an archaic script.<ref name="JE"/> The confusion, or rather neglect, of the gutturals in pronunciation may be compared with a similar peculiarity of the Galilean dialect.<ref name="JE"/> The language must be studied in connection especially with that of the Jerusalem Talmud and the remains of Christian Palestinian Syriac.<ref name="JE"/> After the Arab conquest of Syria in 632, the Samaritan vernacular gradually gave way to Arabic, and probably by the eleventh century, if not earlier, it was no longer popularly understood.<ref name="JE"/> From that time the literature is either in Arabic or, chiefly for liturgical purposes, in Hebrew, which becomes more and more corrupt as time goes on.<ref name="JE"/>
The Samaritan language proper is a Palestinian Aramaic dialect, differing only slightly from the other dialects of Aramaic spoken in Syria, but preserving an archaic script.<ref name="JE"/> The confusion, or rather neglect, of the gutturals in pronunciation may be compared with a similar peculiarity of the Galilean dialect.<ref name="JE"/> The language must be studied in connection especially with that of the Jerusalem Talmud and the remains of Christian Palestinian Syriac.<ref name="JE"/> After the Arab conquest of Syria in 632, the Samaritan vernacular gradually gave way to Arabic, and probably by the eleventh century, if not earlier, it was no longer popularly understood.<ref name="JE"/> From that time the literature is either in Arabic or, chiefly for liturgical purposes, in Hebrew, which becomes more and more corrupt as time goes on.<ref name="JE"/>
==Samaritans and Israel==
Samaratins at Mount Gerizim, their equivalent of [[Jerusalem]], accepted and even promoted [[abortion]] as a result of receiving citizenship in [[Israel]]:
{{cquote|In the 1990s, when the Samaritans at Mount Gerizim were granted Israeli citizenship, they gained access to Israel's hi-tech hospitals, among the most advanced in the world. Routine genetic testing was introduced in the pregnancies of Samaritan women, and abortions were encouraged whenever the risk of birth defects was higher than 10%. ... Around one in five pregnancies is now terminated.<ref name="Guardian">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/11/ukrainian-women-samaritans-mount-gerizim</ref>}}
One woman described how difficult the abortion was: "It felt like I lost someone I knew. I had something black in my heart. ... The abortion was emotionally very hard."<ref name="Guardian"/>
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[https://margmowczko.com/a-brief-history-of-the-samaritans/ History of Samaritans]
*[https://margmowczko.com/a-brief-history-of-the-samaritans/ History of Samaritans]
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