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Canaanite
Geographic
distribution:		 Levant, Carthage
Linguistic classification: Afro-Asiatic
Subdivisions:
Phoenician (extinct)
Hebrew:
Biblical Hebrew (Israelite)/
Moabite (extinct)/
Ammonite (extinct)/
Edomite (extinct)

The Canaanite languages are a branch of Northwest Semitic languages. The only main language still spoken from the branch is Hebrew. They are spoken in the Levant area of the Middle East.

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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Lenguas cananeas para niños

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