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

    Canaanite languages. 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.

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

    Mar 12, 2024 · 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.

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  6. www.worldhistory.org › article › 17The Phoenician Alphabet & Language - World History Encyclopedia

    Jan 18, 2012 · Phoenician is a Canaanite language closely related to Hebrew. Very little is known about the Canaanite language, except what can be gathered from the El- Amarna letters written by Canaanite kings to Pharaohs Amenhopis III (1402 - 1364 BCE) and Akhenaton (1364 - 1347 BCE).

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  7. www.biblicalarchaeology.org › daily › ancientWhat Is Biblical Hebrew? - Biblical Archaeology Society

    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.

  8. sites.utexas.edu › scripts › filesTHE CANAANITE LANGUAGES - University Blog Service

    The Canaanite languages include Ammonite, Amarna Canaanite, Edomite, Hebrew, Moabite, Phoenician and the language of the Deir ʕAllā plaster text (from here on, sim-ply Deir ʕAllā) (Pat-El and Wilson-Wright 2015, 2016). Together with Aramaic, they form the Aramaeo-Canaanite subgroup of Northwest Semitic (Pat-El and Wilson-Wright, forthc.).

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