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The earliest writing, dating to the end of the 4th millennium BCE, has been found in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Writing involves the use of a system of signs or symbols to represent the spoken language. In Mesopotamia, scribes recorded commercial transactions on clay tablets.
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In Egyptian art, Canaanite nobles are shown wearing...
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Excavated remains of a three-room house. UPMuseum...
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An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient...
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They did, however, share sufficient similarities in language...
- Canaan & Ancient Israel @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
While many are familiar with the ancient Canaanites and...
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- Egyptian & Cuneiform Influence
- Similarities to Hebrew
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Our knowledge of the Phoenician language is based on the few extant written texts in Phoenician. Before circa 1000 BCE Phoenician was written using cuneiform symbols that were common across Mesopotamia. The first signs of the Phoenician alphabet found at Byblos are clearly derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics, and not from cuneiform. The 22 Phoenici...
By 1000 BCE the Phoenician and Hebrew languages had become distinct from Aramaic, which was spoken in Canaan. To give a few examples, the "ha-" prefix is used in both Phoenician and Hebrew to indicate a determinate noun, while in Aramaic the "-a" suffix is used. The pronoun for the first person is "ānōkī" while in Aramaic it is "anā" (as it is in m...
The Phoenician writing system is, by virtue of being an alphabet, simple and easy to learn, and also very adaptable to other languages, quite unlike cuneiform or hieroglyphics. In the 9th century BCE the Aramaeans had adopted the Phoenician alphabet, added symbols for the initial "aleph" and for long vowels. This Aramaic alphabet eventually turned ...
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According to common theory, Canaanites or Hyksos who spoke a Canaanite language repurposed Egyptian hieroglyphs to construct a different script. [11] The earliest Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions are mostly dated to between the mid-19th (early date) and the mid-16th (late date) century BC.
Proto-Canaanite is a name used for a version of the Proto-Sinaitic script as used in Canaan, an area encompassing modern Lebannon, Israel, Palestine and western parts of Syria. It is also used to refer to an early version of the Phoenican script as used before 1050 BC, or an ancestor of the Phoenician script.
' language of Canaan ') is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon. Extensive Tyro-Sidonian trade and commercial dominance led to Phoenician becoming a lingua franca of the maritime Mediterranean during the Iron Age.
Canaanite alphabet consist of the names of deities alongside personal names. The Canaanites adopted only some two dozen symbols out of the hundreds available in the Egyptian repertoire. The pictures they selected depicted objects that were meaningful to them, such as an ox head ( ; aluf in Canaanite for the letter
The prefix h- is the definite article (Aramaic has a postfixed -a ), which seems to be an innovation of Canaanite. The first person pronoun is ʼnk ( אנכ anok (i), which is similar to Akkadian, Ancient Egyptian and Berber, versus Aramaic ʾnʾ/ʾny. The change of * ā > ō, called the Canaanite shift.
