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Phoenician (/ f ə ˈ n iː ʃ ən / fə-NEE-shən; Phoenician śpt knʿn lit. ' language of Canaan ') is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
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The Phoenician alphabet was an alphabetic script that was...
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The Phoenician alphabet is a consonantal alphabet (or abjad)...
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Phoenician was a Semitic language of the Canaanite subgroup....
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Phoenician language, Semitic language of the Northwestern group, spoken in ancient times on the coast of the Levant in Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and neighbouring towns and in other areas of the Mediterranean colonized by Phoenicians.
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Jan 18, 2012 · Article. by Thamis. published on 18 January 2012. Available in other languages: Arabic, French, Persian, Serbian, Spanish. Phoenician is a Canaanite language closely related to Hebrew.
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Phoenician/Canaanite. 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. The Phoenician alphabet was perhaps the first alphabetic script to ...
