Canaanite languages🔹
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📌Canaanite languages are a group of Semitic languages that belong to the Northwestern Semitic languages - the Canaanite branch. The Canaanite languages or dialects spread in the land of Canaan, which mainly includes Palestine 🇵🇸, the western coast of Lebanon 🇱🇧 and the southwest of Syria 🇸🇾 by the Canaanites, and these languages were a group of dialects close to each other in linguistic characteristics. Since the Canaanite languages were languages spread over a small geographical area and belonged to one language family (Semitic languages), this led to the Canaanite languages sharing many linguistic characteristics, such as grammar and vocabulary. Because of this, some researchers consider Canaanite to be a single language made up of five mutually intelligible dialects. The Canaanite languages consist of the following five languages:
📍 The Phoenician language, which was spoken by the Phoenicians on the western coast of Lebanon, which includes Sidon, Beirut, and other Phoenician cities, in addition to the northern western coast of Palestine (Acre), was divided into:
📍 The Punic language, which is a dialect of the Phoenician language and was spread in the Phoenician settlements in the Carthage Empire.
📍 The Moabite language, which is the language that was spoken by the Moabites in the Kingdom of Moab.
📍 The Ammonite language, which is the language that was spoken by the Ammonites who lived in the Ammonite kingdom that arose east of the Jordan River (currently the city of Amman).
📍 The Edomite language, which was spoken by the Edomites in their kingdom that arose in southern Palestine and part of it in Jordan.
📍 The Hebrew language, which is the language that was spoken by the Hebrews in Palestine,
️The use of all Canaanite languages, with the exception of Hebrew, declined.


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