The language of Canaan is what we term Hebrew, and must have been adopted either by the Israelites or by the patriarchs their forefathers.

Between the dialect of the Phoenician inscriptions and that of the Old Testament the difference is but slight, and the tablets of Tel el-Amarna carry back the record of this Canaanitish speech to the century before the Exodus.
In person, as we learn from the Egyptian monuments, the Canaanites resembled their descendants, the modern inhabitants of Palestine.

They belonged to the white race, but had black hair and eyes.

They dressed in brilliantly-coloured garments, stained with that purple or scarlet dye in search of which they explored the coasts of the Greek seas, and which was extracted from the shell of the murex.

On their feet they wore high-laced sandals; their hair was bound with a fillet.