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Phoenician ( / fəˈniːʃən / fə-NEE-shən; Phoenician śpt knʿn lit. 'language of Canaan' [2]) is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
Apr 13, 2024 · cana1267. The Canaanite languages, sometimes referred to as Canaanite dialects, [1] are one of three subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages, the others being Aramaic and Amorite. These closely related languages originate in the Levant and Mesopotamia, and were spoken by the ancient Semitic-speaking peoples of an area encompassing what is ...
Proto-Canaanite is the name given to the. (a) the Proto-Sinaitic script when found in Canaan, dating to about the 17th century BCD and later. [1] (b) a hypothetical ancestor of the Phoenician script before some cut-off date, typically 1050 BC, with an undefined affinity to Proto-Sinaitic. [2] No extant "Phoenician" inscription is older than ...
Canaano-Akkadian language. Canaano-Akkadian is an ancient Semitic language which was the written language of the Amarna letters from Canaan. [1] [2] It is a mixed language with mainly Akkadian vocabulary and Canaanite grammatical features. It used the cuneiform writing system of the Akkadian language .
Flinders Petrie, 1906, Researches in Sinai O my god, 「rescue」 [me] 「from」 the interior of the mine. ’l「ḫlṣ」[n]「b」t「k」nqb Text 350 Steliform rock panel column ii, left column gives a picture of the situation of the miners." According to William Albright, in his book "The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions And Their Decipherment", the first inscriptions in the category now ...
The Canaanite languages, or Canaanite dialects, [2] are one of the three subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages, the others being Aramaic and Amorite. They were spoken by the ancient Semitic people of the Canaan and Levant regions, an area encompassing what is today Israel, Jordan, Sinai, Lebanon, Syria, the Palestinian territories and ...
The Moabite language, also known as the Moabite dialect, is an extinct sub-language or dialect of the Canaanite languages, themselves a branch of Northwest Semitic languages, formerly spoken in the region described in the Bible as Moab (modern day central-western Jordan) in the early 1st millennium BC. The body of Canaanite epigraphy found in ...
