Canaanitic

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adjective

Ca·​naan·​it·​ic

¦kānə¦nitik

1

: canaanite

2

: constituting or belonging to a subdivision of the Northwest Semitic languages that includes Canaanite, Phoenician, Hebrew, and various allied languages

Canaanitic

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noun

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plural -s

: the Canaanitic subdivision of languages

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