Canaanitic

British  

/ ˌkeɪnəˈnɪtɪk /

noun

1. a group of ancient languages belonging to the Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family and including Canaanite, Phoenician, Ugaritic, and Hebrew

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adjective

1. denoting, relating to, or belonging to this group of languages

Example Sentences

Among these stand foremost all such as refer to the treatment of, and relations with, the Canaanitic families.

From A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth by Reggio, Isaac Samuele

Indeed, the ruling family which came into prominence there is believed to have been of Canaanitic origin.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

This migration is termed the Canaanitic or Amorite: it flowed into Mesopotamia and across Assyria, while it supplied the "driving power" which secured the ascendancy of the Hammurabi Dynasty at Babylon.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

This aspect of the myth is almost exclusively developed in the religions of most Canaanitic and Semitic nations of the East, where we shall meet with it often and often.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)