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'''Kubrīδ''' (natively 𐤄𐤋𐤔𐤅𐤍 𐤄𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍𐤉𐤀 ''hal-lasōn haκ-κubrijjā'' /ʔal'lasoːn ʔax'xanaɣ̃niːjaː/ or ''hal-lasōn hat-turūdijjā'') is the stage of [[Xnánið]] between the split from Pre-Exilic Biblical Hebrew ca. 6th century BC and ca. 5th century CE. It was used as a literary language during this period and was the language of Near-East druidism, a form of Celtic druidism incorporating Semitic pagan elements, before the religion was supplanted by Henosis Ousias. It was then that the drastic changes that had occurred in the spoken language began to be reflected in writing, thus ushering in the era of modern Xnánið.  

Druidic Canaanite developed in isolation from Jewish Hebrew and was influenced by Celtic languages such as Gaulish and Galatian. It is a separate lineage from the Post-Exilic Jewish reading traditions that eventually gave rise to Tiberian Hebrew and the modern Jewish reading traditions in Lõis.

Surviving literature in Druidic Canaanite includes bardic poetry; one Beowulf-length heroic epic, ''Hikkēdē Harδuγār'' (Tales of Harδuγār); incantations; and instructions for various rituals.

Druidic Canaanite was written in an abjad descended from the Proto-Hebrew script. Incantations were completely vocalized, other religious texts less so.

Since Druidic Canaanite merged /ʔ/ and /h/ completely, the letters aleph (''half'') and he (''hê'') are confused in earlier texts. Eventually the letter he was only used for a few function words and particles such as the definite article ''haC-''.

Out of the 25 consonants of Pre-Exilic Biblical Hebrew, Druidic Canaanite merged:

On the other hand, it gained consonants allophonically (see [[Druidic Canaanite#Mutations|#Mutations]]).

Druidic Canaanite had overlong vowels.

There were major stress shifts away from final stress from Pre-Exilic Hebrew to Druidic Canaanite, eventually resulting in unconditional initial stress.

All 7 binyanim of Biblical Hebrew were in use; another stem (the L-stem; TibH פולל ''pôlêl'') remained fully productive in Druidic Canaanite. Druidic Canaanite also developed the binyan ''fuȝal'' (passive of ''faȝal'') completely, instead of merging it completely with ''fuȝȝal'' like Tiberian Hebrew.

:''Main article: [[Druidic Canaanite/Gzarot]]''

Druidic Canaanite preserved Biblical Hebrew verb conjugation quite well (even retaining the waw-consecutive), but also innovated tense constructions. This came from the fact that Celtic speakers attempting to use the aspect-based grammar of Biblical Hebrew wanted to indicate tense unambiguously. The choice of whether to use the non-waw or the waw forms is purely syntactic; it depends on whether there is a preverb or not.

Druidic Canaanite vocabulary was mostly Semitic, but with some Celtic loans. The inherited Semitic vocabulary shows some semantic drift relative to Biblical Hebrew, as well as additional coinages.

The following incantation has 4 stressed syllables per line (Prosody in Druidic Canaanite poetry is based on the number of stressed syllables per line):