• The Canaanite languages continued to be everyday spoken languages until at least the 5th century AD. Hebrew is the only living Canaanite language today...
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  • Canaanite may refer to: Canaan and Canaanite people, Semitic-speaking region and culture in the Ancient Near East Canaanite languages Canaanite religion...
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  • 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...
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  • are joined by Old Aramaic, and by the Iron Age by Sutean and the Canaanite languages (Hebrew, Phoenician/Punic, Edomite and Moabite). The term was coined...
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  • Semitic languages largely fall into the Canaanite languages (such as Phoenician and Hebrew) and Aramaic. Distinctive features of Central Semitic languages include...
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  • Proto-Canaanite is the name given to the (a) the Proto-Sinaitic script when found in Canaan, dating to about the 17th century BC and later. (b) a hypothetical...
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    ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the...
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    languages but not part of them. Amorite appeared in Mesopotamia and the northern Levant c. 2100 BC, followed by the mutually intelligible Canaanite languages...
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  • branch of the Semitic languages family. This sound change caused Proto-NW-Semitic *ā (long a) to turn into ō (long o) in Proto-Canaanite. It accounts, for...
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    Canaan (redirect from Canaanites)
    with and derived from Canaanite culture ... In short, Israelite culture was largely Canaanite in nature.": 13–14  The name "Canaanites" is attested, many...
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  • ("merchant") entered the language, with whb becoming especially common in proper names.[citation needed] Like many other Canaanite languages, Edomite features...
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  • 1st-person perfect is in -ti (singular), -nu (plural), as in the Canaanite languages. In 2022, two large, 3,800-year-old, Amorite-Akkadian bilingual tablets...
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  • scripts. Phoenician belongs to the Canaanite languages and as such is quite similar to Biblical Hebrew and other languages of the group, at least in its early...
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    Hebrew language is attested in inscriptions from about the 10th century BCE, when it was almost identical to Phoenician and other Canaanite languages, and...
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    Akkadian language, and West Semitic, which includes Arabic, Aramaic, the Canaanite languages (including Hebrew), as well as the Ethiopian Semitic languages such...
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    Proto-Sinaitic script (category Canaanite languages)
    the Greek alphabet. According to common theory, Canaanites or Hyksos who spoke a Canaanite language repurposed Egyptian hieroglyphs to construct a different...
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    The Northwest Semitic languages are a language group that contains the Aramaic language, as well as the Canaanite languages including Phoenician and...
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  • Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Phoenician alphabet was used to write Canaanite languages spoken during the Early Iron Age, sub-categorized by historians as...
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    The Punic language, also called Phoenicio-Punic or Carthaginian, is an extinct variety of the Phoenician language, a Canaanite language of the Northwest...
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  • Aramaic (redirect from Aramaic languages)
    the Northwest group of the Semitic language family, which also includes the mutually intelligible Canaanite languages such as Hebrew, Edomite, Moabite,...
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  • Among the Semitic languages, the Canaanite languages underwent a shift in which Proto-Semitic *ā became ō in Proto-Canaanite (a language likely very similar...
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    Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples (category Semitic languages)
    Semitic combines the Northwest Semitic languages and Arabic. Speakers of Northwest Semitic were the Canaanites (including the Phoenicians, Punics, Amorites...
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    The Canaanite Ivory Comb is a 3,700 year old artifact discovered in the ruins of Lachish, an ancient Canaanite city-state located in modern day Israel...
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  • El Shaddai (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    romanized: ʾAllāh Ash-Shadīd) El means "God" in the Ugaritic and the Canaanite languages. The literal meaning of Shaddai, however, is the subject of debate...
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    official language of the State of Israel and the only Canaanite language still spoken as a native language. The revival of Hebrew predates the creation of the...
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    Ammonite is the extinct Canaanite language of the Ammonite people mentioned in the Bible, who used to live in modern-day Jordan, and after whom its capital...
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    Canaanite religion was a group of ancient Semitic religions practiced by the Canaanites living in the ancient Levant from at least the early Bronze Age...
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    Fertile Crescent (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    language isolate Semitic languages: Akkadian (aka Assyrian and Babylonian), Eblaite, Amorite, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Canaanite languages (including Hebrew, Moabite...
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  • Retjenu in designating the wider Syrian region, where speakers of Canaanite languages lived. It was long an outpost of ancient Egypt and is explicitly...
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    literature and spiritual and political thought. Its adherents were called Canaanites (Hebrew: כנענים). The movement's original name was the Council for the...
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