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Other possible Canaanite languages: Ugaritic is possibly also a Northwest Semitic language, but likely not Canaanitic. [7] [8] The Deir Alla inscription, written in a dialect with Aramaic and South Canaanitic characteristics, [citation needed] which is classified as Canaanite in Hetzron. Sutean, a Semitic language, possibly of the Canaanite branch.
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Canaan [i] [1] [2] was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Assyrian Empires converged or overlapped.
Canaano-Akkadian is an ancient Semitic language which was the written language of the Amarna letters from Canaan. [1] [2] It is a mixed language with mainly Akkadian vocabulary and Canaanite grammatical features. It used the cuneiform writing system of the Akkadian language.
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' language of Canaan ' [2]) 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 .
Proto-Canaanite, also referred to as Proto-Canaan, Old Canaanite, or Canaanite, [5] is the name given to either a script ancestral to the Phoenician or Paleo-Hebrew script with undefined affinity to Proto-Sinaitic, [7] or to the Proto-Sinaitic script (c. 16th century BC), when found in Canaan. [8] [9] [10] [11]
The term was coined by Carl Brockelmann in 1908, [2] who separated Fritz Hommel's 1883 classification of Semitic languages [2] into Northwest (Canaanite and Aramaic), East Semitic (Akkadian, its Assyrian and Babylonian dialects, Eblaite) and Southwest (Arabic, Old South Arabian languages and Abyssinian).