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From: sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen)
Subject: Re: Strange Hebrew vowel system
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950320151554.16294C@grad>,
Timothy Miller  <millert@csee.usf.edu> wrote:
>
>You said that Hebrew was always semitic... well, perhaps, but some have 
>suggested that Hebrew may have come from the Canaanite language, or was 
>at least very strongly influenced by it.  ...

As near as I can tell, the Canaanite language would have been
Semitic itself!

In fact in one classification of the Semitic languages I have,
the subgroup contining Hebrew is called Canaanite, and it
included such languages as Phoenician and Ugaritic.
[Though this particular source is not the most reliable].
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