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CANAANITIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Canaanitic mean? 

CANAANITIC (noun)
  The noun CANAANITIC has 1 sense:

1. a group of Semitic languagesplay

  Familiarity information: CANAANITIC used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CANAANITIC (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of Semitic languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Canaanitic; Canaanitic language

Hypernyms ("Canaanitic" is a kind of...):

Semitic (a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Canaanitic"):

Hebrew (the ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel)

Canaanite (the extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied Canaan before the Israelite conquest)

Phoenician (the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world)

Ugaritic (an extinct Semitic language of northern Syria)


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