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'''Modern Canaanite''' (Canaanite: כﬞנאַאנידﬞ ''Xnánið'' /xnɛ:nið/ or | '''Modern Canaanite''' (Canaanite: כﬞנאַאנידﬞ ''Xnánið'' /xnɛ:nið/ or נומא כﬞנאַאן ''núm Xnán'' /ni:m 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. Genetic studies show that the Xnánem were originally Celtic speakers who adopted a form of Hebrew. 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. | ||
It's inspired grammatically by Welsh, and aesthetically by Cockney English and Khmer. | It's inspired grammatically by Welsh, and aesthetically by Cockney English and Khmer. | ||
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*''likkori'' = to die (lit. be called [by God]) | *''likkori'' = to die (lit. be called [by God]) | ||
*''šovuą'' = week | *''šovuą'' = week | ||
*'' | *''mødbár'' = conference | ||
*נא becomes a focus marker ''=nø'' | *נא becomes a focus marker ''=nø'' | ||
**question marker ''a ... [FOCUS]=nø'' | **question marker ''a ... [FOCUS]=nø'' | ||
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# Inherited vocab from Biblical Hebrew | # Inherited vocab from Biblical Hebrew | ||
# | # Celtic substrates | ||
# Ancient Greek, Old Togarmite and Aramaic loans | # Ancient Greek, Old Togarmite and Aramaic loans | ||
# L-Arabic loans | # L-Arabic loans | ||