Canaanite shift

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The Canaanite shift is a historical sound change in Northwest Semitic languages in which the Proto-Semitic long *ā vowel became *ō, helping distinguish the Canaanite branch (including Hebrew and Phoenician) from related languages.


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Edomite
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