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To: marcos who wrote (160905)	4/22/2005 4:09:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Google counts 317 hits for the search "canaanite language Of course. Cultures have languages. The canaanites were a culture and they had a language, several probably. Where you screw up is when you begin to say that the phoenicians spoke a 'canaanite' language. The phoenicans were a separate but related culture, living during a later time period. They spoke a West Semitic dialetic commonly called phoenician. When you speak of the relationships between the different languages such as canaanite, phoenician and hebrew, you need the word that refers to the language family. That word is "Semitic". As opposed to "Indo-European", which refers to languages such as Sanscrit, Greek or Hittite.