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- Phoenician words are found in Classical Greek and Latin literature as well as in writings in the Egyptian, Akkadian, and Hebrew languages.
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History. The oldest testimony documenting words in Phoenician is probably from the Late Bronze Age. The Book of Deuteronomy 3:9 reads: "Sidonians called Hermon Sirion [שרין]". The Phoenicians were the first state-level society to make extensive use of the Semitic alphabet.
Jan 18, 2012 · The first signs of the Phoenician alphabet found at Byblos are clearly derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics, and not from cuneiform. The 22 Phoenician letters are simplifications of Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols, which took on a standardized form at the end of the 12th century BCE.
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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.
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The Phoenician alphabet developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, during the 15th century BC. Before then the Phoenicians wrote with a cuneiform script. The earliest known inscriptions in the Phoenician alphabet come from Byblos and date back to 1000 BC.
Phoenician refers to a language or a group of dialects, spoken in Byblos, Tyre, Sidon, in Phoenicia, a region corresponding to present-day Lebanon, and in the cities founded by the Phoenicians on the coasts of the Mediterranean. It's a language closed to Syriac. Texts & Literature.
Phoenician alphabet, writing system that developed out of the North Semitic alphabet and was spread over the Mediterranean area by Phoenician traders. It is the probable ancestor of the Greek alphabet and, hence, of all Western alphabets.
The Phoenician alphabet is a consonantal alphabet (or abjad) used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BCE. It was one of the first alphabets, and attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region.
