Language
Canaanite is a Semitic language that includes Hebrew, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Moabite.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 219.)
The Canaanite alphabet of the Phoenician and Moabite languages had 22 consonants.
The oldest examples of a Canaanite alphabet were preserved in the Ugaritic cuneiform alphabet of the 14th century B.C. The old style is called the Phoenician or paleo-Hebrew script and is the predecessor to Greek and Western alphabets. The modern script is Aramaic or square script and became widespread after Israel's exile into Babylon (6th century B.C.) but did not entirely replace the old. Early Christian era coins and God's name in the Dead Sea Scrolls use the old.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 221)
Legacy
Around the 8th century B.C., Greek writing appeared in a different script based on an alphabet presumably borrowed from the Phoenicians then adapted to the Greek speech sound system and direction of writing. Greek was first written from right to left like West Semitic languages, then in a back-and-forth pattern, and finally left-to-right.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 231)