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| | Encyclopedia: Canaanite languages |
 | | The main sources for study of Canaanite languages are the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and inscriptions such as: The Ammonite language is the extinct Canaanite language of the Ammonite people mentioned in the Bible, who used to live in modern-day Jordan, and after whom its capital Amman is named. | | | All of them became extinct as native languages in the early first millennium CE, although Hebrew remained in continuous literary and religious use among Jews, and was revived as a spoken, everyday language in the nineteenth century by Eliezer Ben Yehuda. | | | Phoenician is a Semitic language of the Canaanite subgroup, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Canaanite-languages
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| | Hebrew language |
| | It was reborn as a spoken language during the late 19th and 20th century as Modern Hebrew, replacing Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish and other languages of the Jewish diaspora as the spoken language of the majority of the Jewish people living in Israel. | | | The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. | | | The Yiddish language and the Ladino language (although neither is truly derived from Hebrew, both are full of Hebrew loanwords. |
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http://www.bidprobe.com/en/wikipedia/h/he/hebrew_language.html
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| | Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language) |
| | The main Canaanite languages are Phoenician, Punic, Moabite, Edomite, Hebrew and Ammonite. | | | It diverged from the South Arabian languages around the beginning of the Christian era, reaching its greatest extension in the 4th century AD, when it was spoken especially in the kingdom of Aksum on either side of the present-day border of Ethiopia and Eritrea. | | | The esoteric religion of the Mandaeans was based on the Gnostic doctrine of Antiquity. |
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http://phoenicia.org/semlang.html
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| | Semitic languages - Biocrawler definition:Semitic languages - Biocrawler |
| | Semitic languages were among the earliest to attain a written form, with Akkadian writing beginning in the middle of the third millennium BC. | | | The term "Semitic" for these languages, after Shem son of Noah, is etymologically a misnomer in some ways (see Semitic), but is nonetheless standard. | | | Phoenician colonies spread their Canaanite language throughout much of the Mediterranean, while its close relative Hebrew became the vehicle of a religious literature, the Torah and Tanakh, that would have global ramifications. |
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http://www.biocrawler.com/biowiki/Semitic_language
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| | Glossary |
| | Canaan and the Biblical Israelites: In the Bible, Canaan is the son of Ham and the grandson of Noah. | | | Canaanite religious language and thought influenced the religion of Israel. | | | Canaanite religion seems to have placed emphasis on fertility in the natural world. |
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http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/canaan.htm
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| | Afro-Asiatic: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Tonal languages are found in the Omotic, Chadic, and South and East Cushitic branches of Afro-Asiatic, according to Ehret (1996). | | | Included among the Canaanite languages are Phoenician, Moabite, Ugaritic, and Hebrew. | | | Both languages are now extinct, although a dialect of Coptic continues to be used liturgically by the Coptic Church (see Copts). |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/afro-asiatic-languages
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Semitic, pt. 2 |
| | updated 4-29-2003 Geez (Afro-Asiatic) is the literary language developed by missionaries for the translation of the scriptures after the Christianization of Ethiopia in the 4th century A.D. It is the official language of the Ethiopian Christian church, and is written with the Ethiopic alphabet. | | | updated 5-1-2003 Canaanite (Afro-Asiatic) belongs to the Canaanite-Phoenician sub-branch of the Northern West Semitic sub-branch of the West Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. | | | It belongs to the East Semitic sub-branch of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/semite2h.htm
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| | Jewish, Jewish, Everywhere, & not a drop to drink |
| | But scientifically, the interrelated languages of Hebrews in Canaan are all Canaanite languages no more or less related to each other than the languages spoken by the ethnic Canaanites themselves, and are only also called "Hebrew languages" because they were biblical peoples in the Holy Land who spoke the same language. | | | It is thus the language in which the Holy One, blessed be He, spoke with His prophets, and with His people. | | | The Hebrew language might be appropriately called the Israelitish dialect of Canaanitish, a branch of the Semitic Languages spoken in Palestine and in the Phenician colonies. |
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http://simshalom.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_simshalom_archive.html
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| | Sacred Names, Definitions, Languages, What is God's Name? |
| | Ugaritic is closely related to Hebrew and has broadened appreciation of the language of the OT in many ways. | | | Some who choose to use "Hebrew names" speculate that biblical Hebrew was the original "one language" of Genesis. | | | It does not say that the original "one language" was preserved by any group of people. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1611/name9.html
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| | Introduction to Ethiopic |
| | Ethiopic or Geez is an ancient spoken and written language of Ethiopia. | | | In Semitic languages consonants are formed at the back of the mouth toward the throat. | | | Hebrew was spoken from approximately the 13th century BC until the 2nd century AD in Palestine and later spread throughout the world as a written language. |
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http://www.ethiopic.com/introdct.htm
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| | Canaanite languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Such modern languages as Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic belong to the Semitic language group. | | | Phoenician is very close to Hebrew and Moabite, with which it forms a Canaanite subgroup of the Northern Central Semitic... | | | In about 1000 BC, in Byblos and other Phoenician and Canaanite centers, the sign was given a linear form (3), the source of all later forms. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9019902?&query=canaanite
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| | Exerts From "Amharic Verb Morphology: A Generative Approach" |
| | The origin of the Gurage communities is an unsettled issue: there is good reason to believe that they are the outgrowth of ancient military colonies from the north, though some reject this (Hudson 1977). | | | The creole nature of the language of these songs has caused great difficulties to scholars, especially if one looks on the language as an orthodox linear ancestor of Amharic, as first suggested by Hailu Fulass. | | | Names of languages and groups with Ethiopian representation are underlined. |
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http://www.abyssiniagateway.net/info/bender.html
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| | Canaanite languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | The main sources for study of Canaanite languages are the Hebrew Bible ((The Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings) Tanakh), and inscriptions such as: | | | The first person pronoun being 'ʾnk' (אנכ - anok(i)) (versus Aramaic - ʾnʾ/ʾny) - which is similiar to (An ancient branch of the Semitic languages) Akkadian; this is a common retention from proto- (A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa) Afro-Asiatic. | | | in the (Click link for more info and facts about Biblical Hebrew language) Biblical Hebrew language: Gezer Calendar |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/C/Ca/Canaanite_languages.htm
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| | Balak - Dr. Zvi Betzer |
| | Lexically, as far as the stock of words, it resembles Canaanite languages, especially Hebrew, and therefore could be viewed as a Canaanite language; grammatically it belongs to the northwestern Semitic languages; phonologically (its consonants and vowels) it closely resembles Arabic, and in this respect could be viewed as southwestern Semitic. | | | Ugaritic is generally viewed today as a northwestern Semitic language, but there is still some controversy as to the exact branch of Semitic tongues to which it belongs. | | | [9] In Arabic the letter ayin in the root is ayin2,, but this is not the place to discuss the relationship of ayin1 and ayin2 in Semitic languages. |
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http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/balak/bet.html
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Afro-Asiatic |
| | It consists of languages spoken in north Africa and in the Near East, both in the past and presently. | | | West Semitic is further divided into Northern and Southern West Semitic, and includes such languages as Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Maltese, and Punic. | | | The Semitic branch is divided into East and West sub-branches, and is found in both the Near East and in north Africa. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/semhamfh.htm
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| | Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic dialect more closely related in many respects to the later Canaanite languages such as Hebrew and Aramaic than either the East Semitic dialects of Akkadian or the Southwest Semitic languages of the Arabic and Ethiopic regions. | | | Further, it provides a most important source of material that is closely parallel in its literary forms and religious content to that of the later Canaanite world with which ancient Israel was not only closely related culturally but also in intimate contact. | | | Requirement for M.A. in Semitic Languages and Literature. |
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http://www.fuller.edu/sot/ecds/981/LG533-833_Bush.html
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| | Ugaritic |
| | Ugaritic was a Semitic language written in cuneiform that was adapted for use as an alphabet. | | | It has been extremely important for scholars of the Old Testament in clarifying Hebrew texts and has revealed more of how Judaism used common phrases, literary idioms, and expressions employed by surrounding pagan cultures. | | | A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. |
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http://www.apawn.com/search.php?title=Ugaritic
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| | William Fulco Curriculum Vitae - Classics and Archaeology Department |
| | Lectures included: "The Coinage of the Ancient Near East," "The Origins of the Hebrew Language," "Male and Female in the Ancient Near Eastern Pantheons," "The History, Culture and Religion of the Canaanites Before the Israelite Conquest," and "Jewish Wisdom in Christian Origins." | | | l968-70: Yale University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures: PhD studies in Northwest and Comparative Semitics, Ancient Near Eastern Religions, Archaeology, Hieroglyphic & Hieratic Egyptian. | | | 1974-75: Catholic Biblical Association appointment as visiting professor to the École Biblique et Archéologique in Jerusalem (taught Ugaritic and Canaanite palaeography); also one month teaching Old Testament in Bombay; archaeological study in Southeast Asia, Burma, Iran, Mediterranean. |
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http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/classics/wfulco.shtml
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| | The most common Semitic languages spoken today are Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew, and Tigrinya. | | | These languages all exhibit a pattern of words consisting of triconsonantal roots, with vowel changes, prefixes, and suffixes used to inflect them. | | | Semitic languages are a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languages. |
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http://www.informationclub.com/encyclopedia/s/se/semitic_language.html
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| | Canaanite |
| | Canaanite Languages are generally those thought to constitute the North Central branch of Northwest Afroasiatic. | | | In its widest terms it may include any of the following, though most commonly Aramaic & Punic are alternatively categorised as Eastern & Southern Central Northwest Afroasiatic respectively. | | | Canaanite can describe anything pertaining to Canaan and in particular its Language. |
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http://www.portaljuice.com/canaanite.html
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| | ClayGate 490 : Other languages |
| | Suite101.com : 491 - East Indo-European and Celtic languages | | | Easton Languages Online : Russian Read & Write | | | Easton Languages Online : Russian Exercises & Quizzes |
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http://library.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/irs/webcat/490.htm
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