Easily done.
Infact Old Arabic preceedes Aramaic.
It is the oldest written langauge.
Hebrew had no written script until around 100 BC.
en.wikipedia.org
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Old Arabic and its descendants are classified
Central Semitic languages, which is an intermediate language group containing the older
Northwest Semitic languages (e.g.,
Aramaic and
Hebrew), the languages of the
Dadanitic,
Taymanitic inscriptions, the poorly understood languages labeled
Thamudic, and the ancient languages of
Yemen written in the
Ancient South Arabian script. Old Arabic, is however, distinguished from all of them by the following innovations:
[3]
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The ancient Canaanites spoke a Semitic Arab language as far back as 10,000 BC.
en.wikipedia.org
{...
The
Canaanite languages, or
Canaanite dialects,
[1] are one of the three
subgroups of the
Northwest Semitic languages, the others being
Aramaic and
Ugaritic, all originating in the
Levant and
Mesopotamia. They are attested in
Canaanite inscriptions throughout the
Levant,
Mesopotamia,
Anatolia and the
East Mediterranean, and after the founding of
Carthage by Phoenician colonists, in coastal regions of
North Africa and
Iberian Peninsula also. Dialects have been labelled primarily with reference to
Biblical geography:
Hebrew (Israelite, Judean,
Samaritan),
Phoenician/
Punic,
Amorite,
Ammonite,
Philistine,
Moabite,
Sutean and
Edomite; the dialects were all mutually intelligible, being no more differentiated than geographical varieties of Modern English.
[2] This family of languages has the distinction of being the first historically attested group of languages to use an
alphabet, derived from the
Proto-Canaanite alphabet, to record their writings, as opposed to the far earlier
Cuneiform logographic/
syllabic writing of the region, which originated in
Mesopotamia.
These extremely closely related tongues were spoken by the ancient
Semitic people of the
Canaan and
Levant regions, an area encompassing what is today
Israel,
Jordan,
Sinai,
Lebanon,
Syria, the
Palestinian territories and also some areas of southwestern
Turkey (
Anatolia), western and southern
Iraq (Mesopotamia) and the north western corner of
Saudi Arabia.
The
Canaanites are broadly defined to include the
Hebrews (including
Israelites,
Judeans and
Samaritans),
Amalekites,
Ammonites,
Amorites,
Edomites,
Ekronites,
Hyksos,
Phoenicians (including the
Carthaginians),
Moabites and
Suteans. Although the
Amorites are included among the Canaanite peoples, their language is sometimes not considered to be a Canaanite language but very closely related.
The Canaanite languages continued to be everyday
spoken languages until at least the 4th century CE.
Hebrew is the only living Canaanite language today. It remained in continuous use by many
Jews well into the
Middle Ages and up to the present day as both a
liturgical and
literary language and was used
for commerce between disparate
diasporic Jewish communities. It has also remained a liturgical language among
Samaritans. Hebrew was
revived by Jewish political and cultural activists, particularly through the revitalization and cultivation efforts of
Zionists throughout Europe and in
Palestine, as an everyday spoken language in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By the mid-20th century,
Modern Hebrew had become the primary language of the
Jews of Palestine and was later made the
official language of the
State of Israel.
The primary modern reference book for the many extra-biblical Canaanite inscriptions, together with
Aramaic inscriptions, is the German-language book
Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften, from which inscriptions are often referenced as
KAI n (for a number
n).
[3]
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And just so there is no misunderstanding, Semitic means "of an Arab language group".
It does NOT mean Jewish, as all.
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Semitic
[səˈmidik]
ADJECTIVE
- relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family.
- relating to the peoples who speak Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic.
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