samaritano

Samaritan is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing Samaritan Hebraico0590–05FF and Aramaic.

The Samaritan alphabet is used by the Samaritans for religious writings, including the Samaritan Pentateuch, writings in Samaritan Hebrew, and for commentaries and translations in Samaritan Aramaic and occasionally Arabic. Samaritan is a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, which was a variety of the Phoenician alphabet in which large parts of the Hebrew Bible were originally penned. All these scripts are believed to be descendants of the Proto-Sinaitic script. That script was used by the ancient Israelites, both Jews and Samaritans. The better-known “square script” Hebrew alphabet traditionally used by Jews is a stylized version of the Aramaic alphabet which they adopted from the Persian Empire (which in turn adopted it from the Arameans). After the fall of the Persian Empire, Judaism used both scripts before settling on the Aramaic form. For a limited time thereafter, the use of paleo-Hebrew (proto-Samaritan) among Jews was retained only to write the Tetragrammaton, but soon that custom was also abandoned.

Propriedades

Intervalo	0800–083F
Personagens	64

Lista de Caracteres

Tabela de Caracteres

07C0–07FF NKo 0840–085F Mandaic

0: Plano Multilingue Básico

1: Plano Multilingue opcional

2: Plano ideográfico adicional

3: Plano ideográfico terciário

4-13: Não utilizado

14: Plano adicional especializado

15: Área adicional para uso privado – A

16: Área adicional para uso privado – B