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  2. Subdivisions. Hebrew ( revived) Ammonite †. Moabite †. Edomite †. Phoenician (incl. Punic) †. Glottolog. cana1267. The Canaanite languages, sometimes referred to as Canaanite dialects, [1] are one of three subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages, the others being Aramaic and Amorite.

  3. Canaanite languages, group of Northern Central or Northwestern Semitic languages including Hebrew, Moabite, Phoenician, and Punic. They were spoken in ancient times in Palestine, on the coast of Syria, and in scattered colonies elsewhere around the Mediterranean. An early form of Canaanite is attested in the Tell el-Amarna letters ( c. 1400 bc ...

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  4. Phoenician ( / fəˈniːʃən / fə-NEE-shən; Phoenician śpt knʿn lit. 'language of Canaan' [2]) is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon.

  5. internal subgrouping of the Canaanite languages remains murky due to two factors. First, most of the Canaanite languages are poorly attested, making it difficult to know when morphosyntactic innovations are shared among languages. In Standard Phoenician, for example, the C stem suffix conjugation takes the form yktb, which differs from the

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  6. From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Canaanite languages are a branch of Northwest Semitic languages. The only main language still spoken from the branch is Hebrew. They are spoken in the Levant area of the Middle East . Category: Semitic languages.

  7. The Moabite language, also known as the Moabite dialect, is an extinct sub-language or dialect of the Canaanite languages, themselves a branch of Northwest Semitic languages, formerly spoken in the region described in the Bible as Moab (modern day central-western Jordan) in the early 1st millennium BC.

  8. Dec 22, 2023 · The Canaanite language, of which Hebrew is a dialect, represents the western or southwestern branch of the Northwest Semitic subfamily. Its geographic domain was the area known as the Levant, which extends inland from the easternmost coastline of the Mediterranean Sea towards the Dead Sea and the Great Rift Valley.

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