Canaanitic Language (Noun)
Meaning
A group of Semitic languages.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Canaanitic language group, a subgroup of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, comprises literary Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, and to a lesser degree Saronic, all of which were spoken in Canaan, now modern Lebanon, Syria, and parts of Jordan and the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- The Canaanitic languages went to make up a diverse number of Semitic languages which descended from the Phoenician tongue through history by way of geography and branching dialectical histories.
- In terms of the historical linguistics associated with development of the ancient language family, Phoenician which gave rise to other "canaanic languages" in turn the emergence branched within specific areas and, there is no consensus among linguists and scholars in respect to some specific terms for different linguistic traditions of development for different sub groups within the group known as Canaanitic languages, though they have different branches within history as part of dialects development history for all dialects as such branches dialectical branches for Phoenician dialect history in development and sub group as branches and branch development of different history development as part of branches within sub branches.
- It was spoken as a vernacular language, though formal or official purposes it was reserved for use of Hebrew and its cognates and many Canaanitic languages in Phoenician writing for written language of this type in formal documents as it became formal or written dialect.
- There is also another Canaanitic language Moabite with inscriptions of the Mesha stele show its affinity to the Phoenician dialect very well in an area now part of Jordon, the language has preserved a few, as on the name inscribed, and perhaps some place names of this region inscriptions only but its developments suggest that it went to make up Semic branch.