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'''Knench''' (/nɛntʃ/, from Old Knench ''χnānī'' via [[Old Azalic]] ''ngoinisχ''; natively ''Hróni'' /xɾaonɪ/ or ''núm Hrón'' /nɨːm xɾaon/) is a Semitic language spoken in the Irta timeline and the closest living relative to Hebrew in Irta. Small Knench-speaking communities exist in Israel as well. The name of the language comes from Ancient Knench ''kanaȝnî'' 'Canaanite'. Knench has received strong Azalic influence throughout its history since Ancient Knench times, and genetic studies have shown that the Knench are descendants of Azalic speakers who adopted a Canaanite language. The language descends from a close relative of Biblical Hebrew which was spoken in North Africa (which was spoken instead of our Punic in Irta), but its grammar is far more analytic than its ancestor: it was completely restructured to use constructions with auxiliaries and infinitives instead of the older prefix and suffix conjugations, and it is the only Irtan Semitic language that has lost grammatical gender outside of Far East Semitic. Knench has many Greek, Azalic, Arabic, Togarmite, Romance, and English loanwords.