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      • 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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      Canaanite languages | Semitic, Ancient Near East, Phoenician

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Canaanite_languagesCanaanite languages - Wikipedia

    The Canaanite languages continued to be everyday spoken languages until at least the 2nd century AD. Hebrew is the only living Canaanite language today.

  4. www.britannica.com › topic › Canaanite-languagesCanaanite languages | Semitic, Ancient Near East, Phoenician

    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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  5. www.myjewishlearning.com › article › the-beginningsThe Beginnings of the Hebrew Language | My Jewish Learning

    The Israelite tribes that settled in Canaan from the 14th to 13th centuries B.C.E.–regardless of what their language might have been before they established themselves there–used Hebrew as a spoken and a literary language until the fall of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E.

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  7. www.britannica.com › place › Canaan-historicalCanaan | Definition, Map, History, & Facts | Britannica

    Canaan, area variously defined in historical and biblical literature, but always centered on Palestine. Its original pre-Israelite inhabitants were called Canaanites. Biblically, Canaanites are identified in Genesis as descendants of Canaan, a son of Ham and grandson of Noah.

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  8. www.britannica.com › topic › Hebrew-languageHebrew language | Origin, History, Alphabet, & Facts | Britannica

    Hebrew language, Semitic language of the Northern Central (also called Northwestern) group; it is closely related to Phoenician and Moabite, with which it is often placed by scholars in a Canaanite subgroup. Spoken in ancient times in Palestine, Hebrew was supplanted by the western dialect of Aramaic beginning about the 3rd century bce; the ...

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  9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Phoenician_languagePhoenician language - Wikipedia

    In modern times, the language was first decoded by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy in 1758, who noted that the name "Phoenician" was first given to the language by Samuel Bochart in his Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan.

  10. smarthistory.org › canaanites-an-introductionSmarthistory – Canaanites, an introduction

    Dec 6, 2023 · 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.

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