Re: middle-eastern questions

--- In cybalist@..., philorej@... wrote:

> 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.
> bobj

Aaah, I see. So basically they're all just dialects of each other?
Also, I forgot to mention Aramaic and Ugaritic. The latter would be
a
dialect as well? Did they all come from one particular Semitic
ancestor, splitting off at some point, or are they related to each
other in a different way (say, something like Hebrew producing
Canaanite, Ugaritic, and Phoenician, or whatever)?

And yes, Canaanite is a w. Semitic language and is extinct. That's
about all I know about it and in regards to its relation to the
others. =)

Thanks, bobj.