Canaanite languages
The Canaanite languages, sometimes referred to as Canaanite dialects, are one of four subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages. The others are Aramaic and the now-extinct Ugaritic and Amorite language. These closely related languages originated in the Levant and Upper Mesopotamia.
Extends: [Canaanite languages](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Canaanite languages), [Languages extinct in the 1st millennium](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Languages extinct in the 1st millennium), [1st-millennium disestablishments in Asia](https://wikipedia.org.ai/1st-millennium disestablishments in Asia)
Properties
| Property | Expected Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Text | Canaanite |
| Region | Text | Levant, Ancient Carthage |
| Familycolor | Text | Afro-Asiatic |
| Fam1 | Text | Afroasiatic |
| Fam2 | Text | Semitic |
| Fam3 | Text | West Semitic |
| Fam4 | Text | Central Semitic |
| Fam5 | Text | Northwest Semitic |
| Child1 | Text | Canaano-Akkadian |
| Child2 | Text | Amorite |
| Child3 | Text | North, Philistine, Phoenician, Punic |
| Child4 | Text | South, Hebrew, Ammonite, Moabite, Edomite |
| Glotto | Text | cana1267 |
| Glottorefname | Text | Canaanite |