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“NORTH CANAAN”
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‘language’ vs ‘dialect’
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(the canaanite languages or canaanite dialects are 1 of the 2 subgroups of the ‘northwest semitic’ languages, the other being the ‘aramaic’ language)
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(they were spoken by the ancient peoples of the ‘canaan’ region, the ‘canaanites’, broadly defined to include…)
‘israelites’
‘phoenicians’
‘amorites’
‘ammonites’
‘moabites’
‘edomites’
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(all of them seem to have become ‘extinct’ as ‘native languages’ by the early 1st millennium CE, although distinct forms of ‘hebrew’ remained in continuous ‘literary’ + ‘religious’ use among ‘jews’ + ‘samaritans’, and ‘punic’ remained in use in the ‘mediterranean’)
(this family of languages has the distinction of being the first group of languages to use an ‘alphabet’ (derived from the ‘proto-canaanite alphabet’) to record their writings)
(the primary reference for extra-biblical ‘canaanite’ inscriptions (together with ‘aramaic’ inscriptions) is the german-language book “kanaanäische und aramäische inschriften”, from which inscriptions are often referenced as KAI n (for a number n))
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