id: "Samr" name: "Samaritan" family: "Middle Eastern" summary: "Samaritan is a Middle Eastern abjad, written right-to-left. Used since 600 BCE by the Samaritans for religious writings in Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic. Derived from Phoenician. Most Hebrew religious writings use the Hebrew script. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping)."