Samaritan vocalization

Examples of Samaritan vocalization for the words ויאמר and עבדים in the Samaritan script.

The Samaritan vocalization (or Samaritan pointing, Samaritan niqqud, Hebrew: ניקוד שומרוני) is a system of diacritics devised by the Samaritans to add to the consonantal text of the Samaritan Pentateuch and to Samaritan prayer books to indicate vowel quality, reflecting Samaritan Hebrew. It is estimated that the Samaritan vocalization was invented around the 10th century CE. Only the most important vowels were indicated, and variation exists within the system between different manuscripts.

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niqqud with ࠌ						, ,
value	/a/, /ɒ/	/e/	/e/, /i/	/o/, /u/	(geminate consonant)	/ʕa/

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Alphabet	Alef Bet Gimel Dalet Hei Vav Zayin Het Tet Yud Kaf Lamed Mem Nun Samech Ayin Pei Tsadi Kuf Reish Shin Taw

Niqqud	Tiberian Babylonian Palestinian Samaritan Shva Hiriq Tzere Segol Patach Kamatz Holam Shuruk Kubutz Dagesh Mappiq Maqqef Rafe Sin/Shin Dot

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Punctuation	Diacritics Meteg Cantillation Geresh Gershayim Inverted nun Shekel sign Numerals

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Samaritan vocalization