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Hebrew is the only living Canaanite language today. It remained in continuous use by many Jews well into the Middle Ages and up to the present day as both a liturgical and literary language and was used for commerce between disparate diasporic Jewish communities.
- Edomite
Edomite was a Northwest Semitic Canaanite language, very...
- Northwest Semitic Languages
Northwest Semitic is a division of the Semitic languages...
- Proto-Canaanite Alphabet
Proto-Canaanite, also referred to as Proto-Canaan, Old...
- Hebrew language
The word IVRIT ("Hebrew") written in modern Hebrew language...
- Edomite
An early form of Canaanite is attested in the Tell el-Amarna letters (c. 1400 bc). Moabite, which is very close to Hebrew, is known chiefly from one inscription dating from the 8th century bc. The only living Canaanite language is Hebrew, which was revived as a spoken language in the 19th and 20th centuries. See also
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 22, 2023 · Biblical Hebrew is the dialect of the Canaanite language used by the people of ancient Israel, and the primary language of the Hebrew Bible. It and the other regional dialects that make up this group—Ammonite, Moabite, Edomite, Phoenician, and so on—were mutually intelligible, meaning that a speaker of one of them could generally understand ...
Whatever the truth of the matter, we have to recognize that the exact beginnings of the Hebrew language are still surrounded by mystery. From the moment of its appearance in a documented written form, Hebrew offers clear evidence that it belongs to the Canaanite group of languages, with certain peculiarities of its own.
Hebrew is a member of the Canaanite group of Semitic languages. It was the language of the early Jews, but from 586 BC it started to be replaced by Aramaic.