ARAMAIC WATCH: Update Your Facebook Status — In Ancient Aramaic! (Haaretz via The Forward).
Hello, Forward editors, Aramaic is not a Canaanite Tongue (let alone a "Canaanite Toungue"). It is a Northwest Semitic language, but it lacks the "Canaanite shift," the systematic change of original long a to long o. You should know these things.
