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Phoenician (/ f ə ˈ n iː ʃ ən / 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 .
- attested in Canaan proper from the 11th century BC to the 2nd century BC
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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Phoenicia ( / fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə / ), [4] or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. [5] [6] The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their ...
Aug 12, 2019 · The Phoenician alphabet remains, nevertheless, an impressive technological development worthy, especially by virtue of its generative power, of detailed study ranging from paleographic and orthographic specifications to social and political contextualization.
Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal (Mediterranean) region then called "Canaan" (in Phoenician, Biblical Hebrew, Old Arabic, and Aramaic ), "Phoenicia" (in Greek and Latin ), and " Pūt " (in the Egyptian language ). It is a part of the Canaanite subgroup of the Northwest Semitic languages.
Aug 12, 2019 · The Phoenician language is written from right to left, in a consonantal alphabetic script, and is attested from the beginning of the Iron Age until the second century bce; several dialects were probably used, but only some of them can be identified, particularly the Byblian dialect. In the West, in the Roman period, a group of inscriptions in ...
Aug 12, 2019 · The testimony of more than six thousand inscriptions in Phoenician language from different periods confirms the existence of a literate society, even if these are not literary documents but, rather, mostly funerary, votive, and commercial epigraphs, with few monumental-narrative texts (see chapter 16, this volume; on language, see chapter 15 ...
