Original sentence: All of them became extinct as native languages in the early first millennium AD, although Hebrew remained in literary and religious use among Jews, and was revived in the twentieth century.Hebrew language -- live descendants.The Canaanite languages are a subfamily of the Semitic languages, spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Hebrews, Phoenicians, and eventually Philistines.The Phoenician (and especially Carthaginian expansion spread their Canaanite language to the Western Mediterranean for a time, but there too it died out, although it seems to have survived slightly longer than in Phoenicia itself
Edited sentence: Additionally, the Phoenician ports and mariners spoke Canaanite languages, and the language of their colony Carthage evolved into the Punic language.Biblical Hebrew language -- live descendants.Canaanite languages were also spoken in ancient times by the self-identified Hebrews who are believed to have immigrated to the Canaan region from the Chaldees.In ancient times, Canaanite was spoken as a dialectual continuum of a variety of peoples who were regarded as ethnically and culturally distinct.Note that the term "Canaan" is used here in a geographical sense and not an ethnic one.Of these, the most well-preserved is Biblical Hebrew, and the only Canaanite language spoken as a vernacular in modern times is Israeli Hebrew.See also Hebrew languages.The Canaanite languages are a subfamily of the Semitic languages, spoken by the ancient Canaanite peoples