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The Lord's prayer in Samaritan Aramaic.

In the picture below there's the Lord's prayer in Samaritan Aramaic. Here is its' transliteration in modern Hebrew letters. אבינו שבשמים : יקדש שמך : תבוא מלכותך : יהי רצונך כאשר בשמים וכן בארץ : לחמנו דבר יום ביומו תן לנו היום : וסלח לנו את חובותנו כאשר סלחנו לבעלי חובותנו : ואל תביאנו לנסין : כי אם הצלנו מרע : כי לך המלכות וגבורה וכבוד לעולם עולמים : אמן Next there its' transliteration in the Latin script reading from left to right. ʾbynw šbšmym : yqdš šmk : tbwʾ mlkwtk : yhy rṣwnk kʾšr bšmym wkn bʾrṣ : lḥmnw dbr ywm bywmw tn lnw hywm : wslḥ lnw ʾt ḥwbwtnw kʾšr slḥnw lbʿly ḥwbwtnw : wʾl tbyʾnw lnsyn : ky ʾm hṣlnw mrʿ : ky lk hmlkwt wgbwrh wkbwd lʿwlm ʿwlmym : ʾmn Read also The Samaritan alphabet. The Lord's prayer in Aramaic.

Samaritan script

The Samaritan alphabet is used by the Samaritans,keepers of the Torah,the Shamerim ( שַמֶרִים ),an ethnoreligious group for purposes of religion for the languages of Samaritan Hebrew,Samaritan Aramaic and Samaritan Arabic.  The script evolved from the Old Hebrew alphabet and ultimately from Phoenician. This is an example of handwritten Samaritan script. Samaria and Judea after Herod. A handwritten example in the Samaritan script follows , Exodus chapter 20 by Lestat Lam . External links A dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic