Samaritan Language.

=.: or -<: more seldom class="greek-hebrew">— .: etc., or compound <: etc. at the end of a longer sentence or section.>

< .:. = = .:. > or similar signs, sometimes again and again repeated, between the end of one section, paragraph, or chapter, and the beginning of the other.

The numbers are written as in Hebrew.

Grammars. — Chr. Crinesius, Lingua Samaritica ex Scriptura Sacra fideliter eruta (Altdorphi, s. a.); Chr. Ravis, A Discourse of the Oriental Tongues, viz. Ebrew, Samaritane, etc., together with a Grammar ofthe said Tongues (Lond. 1649); Morini, Opuscula Hebroeo-Samaritana (Paris, 1657); Hilligerius, Summarium Linguoe Aramoeoe, i.e. Chaldeo- Syro-Samaritanoe (Witteb. 1679); Cellarius, Horoe Samaritanoe (Cizse, 1682; Francof. et Jenae, 1705); Otho, Synopsis Institutionum Samaritanarum, Rabb, etc. (Francof. 3d ed. 1735); Mascleff, Grammatica Hebraica: access. tres Granmaticoe, Chaldaica, Syriaca, et Samaritana (Paris, 2d ed. 1743, 2 vols. 12mo); Stohr, Theoria et Praxis Linguarun Sacrarum, sc. Samaritanoe, Hebr., et Syr. earumque Harmonia (Aug. Vind. 1796); Uhlemann, Institutiones Linguoe Samaritane: accedit Chrestomathia Samaritana Glossario Locupletata (Lips. 1837); Nicholls, A Grammar of the Samaritan Language, with Extracts and Vocabulary (Lond. 1858); Petermann, Brevis Linguoe Samaritanoe Grammatica, etc. (Berolini, 1873).

Lexicons.-Castelli, Lexicon Heptaglotton (Lond. 1669 fol.); Young, Samaritan Root-book (Edinburgh, s. a.). See also Kohn, Samaritanische Studien, and Zur Sprache der Sanmaritaner, p. 206 sq. (B.P.)