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 older Canaanite language reflected in Ugaritic had more than 22 consonants. Arabic preserves some Old Canaanite consonants found in Ugaritic but missing in Hebrew.
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)