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Les langues cananéennes, ou dialectes cananéens, sont l'un des trois sous-groupes des langues sémitiques du Nord-Ouest, les autres étant l' araméen et l' ougaritique . Présentation. Diffusion de l'alphabet en Syro-Palestine entre le XIIIe siècle et le VIIIe siècle (alphabets ougarite, proto-cananéen, phénicien ancien, araméen ancien, hébreu ancien)
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.
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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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Moabite language. 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.
The Canaanites were the indigenous people of the ancient Levant (modern Israel, Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon and coastal Syria). They spoke a Semitic language related to Hebrew. During the Early Bronze Age, as trade with Egypt increased, strongly defended cities developed throughout the region which formed the centers of independent states.
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
