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The English term Canaan (pronounced / ˈ k eɪ n ən / since c. AD 1500, due to the Great Vowel Shift) comes from the Hebrew כנען (knʿn), via Greek Χαναάν Khanaan and Latin Canaan. It appears as KUR ki-na-ah-na in the Amarna letters (14th century BC), and knʿn is found on coins from Phoenicia in the last half of the 1st millennium.
The Chaná language [2] (autolinguonym: Lanték, meaning "speak" or "language"; from lan, "tongue" and tek, a communicative suffix) [3] is one of the Charruan languages spoken by the Chaná people in what is now Argentina and Uruguay along the Uruguay and Paraná Rivers on the margins of the Río de la Plata.
Their pronunciation can then be reconstructed somewhat differently: first-person singular /-iya(ː) / 𐤉 j, third-person singular masculine and feminine /-iyu(ː) / 𐤉 j and /-iya(ː) / 𐤉 j. The third-person plural singular and feminine must have pronounced the same in both cases, i.e. /-nōm / 𐤍𐤌 nm and /-nēm / 𐤍𐤌 nm.
Canaan [i] [1] [2] was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Assyrian Empires converged or overlapped.
The original pronunciation of Biblical Hebrew is accessible only through reconstruction. It may also include Samaritan Hebrew , a variety formerly spoken by the Samaritans . The main sources of Classical Hebrew are the Hebrew Bible and inscriptions such as the Gezer calendar and Khirbet Qeiyafa pottery shard .
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
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