Samaritan Aramaic ceased to be a spoken language some time between the 10th and the 12th centuries, with Samaritans switching to Palestinian Arabic as their vernacular.
In form, Samaritan Aramaic resembles the Aramaic of the Targumim, and is written in the Samaritan alphabet.
Important works written in it include the translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch, legal, exegetical and liturgical texts.
Exodus XX.1-6: Notice the similarities with Judeo-Aramaic as found in Targum Onqelos to this same passage (some expressions below are paraphrased, not literally translated):
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