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- Extensive Tyro-Sidonian trade and commercial dominance led to Phoenician becoming a lingua franca of the maritime Mediterranean during the Iron Age.
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Extensive Tyro-Sidonian trade and commercial dominance led to Phoenician becoming a lingua franca of the maritime Mediterranean during the Iron Age. The Phoenician alphabet spread to Greece during this period, where it became the source of all modern European scripts.
Phoenician language, Northwest Semitic language spoken in ancient times on the coast of the Levant in Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and other areas. It is very close to Hebrew and Moabite, with which it forms the Canaanite language subgroup. The Phoenician alphabet had profound impact on the development of alphabets.
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May 26, 2024 · Aramaic scripts (8th century BC): The Aramaic language and script, which evolved out of Phoenician, became a lingua franca across the Persian Empire and spawned many of the writing systems used in the Middle East today, including Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac [@wikipedia2023aramaic].
Aramaic rose to prominence under the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BC), under whose influence Aramaic became a prestige language after being adopted as a lingua franca of the empire by Assyrian kings, and its use was spread throughout Mesopotamia, the Levant and parts of Asia Minor, Arabian Peninsula, and Ancient Iran under Assyrian rule.
Jan 18, 2012 · Evolution. The Phoenician writing system is, by virtue of being an alphabet, simple and easy to learn, and also very adaptable to other languages, quite unlike cuneiform or hieroglyphics. In the 9th century BCE the Aramaeans had adopted the Phoenician alphabet, added symbols for the initial "aleph" and for long vowels.
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Apr 10, 2024 · The mass deportations of people by the Assyrians and the use of Aramaic as a lingua franca by Babylonian merchants served to spread the language, so that in the 7th and 6th centuries bce it gradually supplanted Akkadian as the lingua franca of the Middle East.
Apr 5, 2024 · Indeed, with the emergence of the Persian Empire in the late sixth century, Aramaic became a true lingua franca, serving not only as the standard medium for diplomacy but also as the language of the Persian court itself, even as far east as the capital Persepolis on the Iranian plateau.
