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'''Modern Canaanite''' (Canaanite: ''Xnánið'' /xnɛ:nið/ or ''sóv Xnán'' /saɤv xnɛːn/, Togarmite: ''Xnoniþ'') is the sole surviving descendant of Biblical Hebrew, spoken by the Xnánem people in Lõis's Cyprus, Turkey, Armenia and the Levant. Some Lõisian rabbinical Jewish writings identify an early stage of the language with the Lost Tribes of Israel, though they lament the "heathen" religious practices ( | '''Modern Canaanite''' (Canaanite: ''Xnánið'' /xnɛ:nið/ or ''sóv Xnán'' /saɤv xnɛːn/, Togarmite: ''Xnoniþ'') is the sole surviving descendant of Biblical Hebrew, spoken by the Xnánem people in Lõis's Cyprus, Turkey, Armenia and the Levant. Some Lõisian rabbinical Jewish writings identify an early stage of the language with the Lost Tribes of Israel, though they lament the "heathen" religious practices (including their "Asherah worship", a form of druidism) of the Knánem. This is not without cause, as the language preserves quite a few Biblical words and phraseology that fell out of use in Mishnaic Hebrew, though unlike Mishnaic and Israeli Hebrew its grammar was completely restructured to use auxiliaries instead of the older Hebrew tenses, under the influence of Celtic languages. | ||
It's inspired grammatically by Welsh, and aesthetically by Cockney English. | It's inspired grammatically by Welsh, and aesthetically by Cockney English. | ||