💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Canaanite languages"
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| Word | Definition |
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| canaanitenoun | A member of the ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before its conquest by Israelites. |
| central semitic languages | one of the three groups of West Semitic languages, alongside Modern South Arabian languages and Ethiopian Semitic languages. |
| aramaicnoun | A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to: |
| eastern aramaic languages | Eastern Aramaic refers to a group of dialects that evolved historically from the varieties of Aramaic spoken in the core territories of Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq, southeastern Turkey and parts of northeastern Syria) and further expanded into northern Syria, eastern Arabia and northwestern Iran. |
| canaanite and aramaic inscriptions | The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, are the primary extra-Biblical source for understanding of the societies and histories of the ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans. |
| moabite language | 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 Semitic languages, formerly spoken in the region described in the Bible as Moab (modern day central-western Jordan) in the early 1st millennium BC. |
| canaanite religion | a group of ancient Semitic religions practiced by the Canaanites living in the ancient Levant from at least the early Bronze Age to the first centuries CE. |
| edomite language | Edomite was a Northwest Semitic Canaanite language, very similar to Biblical Hebrew, Ekronite, Ammonite, Phoenician, Amorite and Sutean, spoken by the Edomites in Idumea (modern-day southwestern Jordan and parts of Israel) in the 2nd and 1st millennium BCE. |
| south semitic languages | South Semitic is a putative branch of the Semitic languages, which form a branch of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family, found in (North and East) Africa and Western Asia. |
| biblical hebrewnoun | the archaic form of the Hebrew language, spoken by the Israelites in the area known as Canaan/Israel in the first millennium BC, best-attested in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) |
| levantine arabicnoun | An Arabic dialect continuum spoken throughout the Levant. |
| phoenician language | Phoenician is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon. |
| west semiticnoun | (linguistics) A proposed major subgroup of ancient Semitic languages, consisting of all Semitic languages not included in the East Semitic subgroup. |
| north germanic languages | The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. |
| neo-syriacnoun | A collection of several Northeastern Neo-Aramaic languages or dialects spoken by Syriac Christians in and around northern Iraq. |
| east semiticnoun | (linguistics) A subgroup of the Semitic languages, attested by two distinct languages, Akkadian and Eblaite, both of which have been long extinct. |
| neo-aramaic languages | The Neo-Aramaic or Modern Aramaic languages are varieties of Aramaic that evolved during the late medieval and early modern periods, and continue to the present day as vernacular (spoken) languages of modern Aramaic-speaking communities. |
| phoenician alphabet | an abjad (consonantal alphabet) used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. |
| northern berber languages | a dialect continuum spoken across the Maghreb, constituting a subgroup of the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. |
| palestinian arabicnoun | An Arabic dialect continuum spoken throughout the Palestinian territories. |
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