Re: [tied] middle-eastern questions

Hebrew, which went thru changes between earliest know writings 10thC BCE thru
to the start of the CE, is a dialect of Canaanite. I suspect the difference
in the beginning was really nought but politico-religio oneupmanship.
Phoenician is another dialect. IIRC Canaanite is a West Semitic language
that is no longer spoken. Another ancestor would be Aramaic.
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