Canaanitic

Canaanitic
noun
a group of Semitic languages
Hypernyms: ↑Semitic
Hyponyms: ↑Hebrew, ↑Canaanite, ↑Phoenician, ↑Ugaritic

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I. \\|kānə|nid.ik\ adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
1. : canaanite II
2. : constituting or belonging to a subdivision of the Northwest Semitic languages that includes Canaanite, Phoenician, Hebrew, and various allied languages
II. noun (-s)
Usage: usually capitalized
: the Canaanitic subdivision of languages

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