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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.
- 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. Phoenician is very close to Hebrew and Moabite, with which it forms the Canaanite subgroup of the Northwestern ...
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The Phoenician language was a member of the Canaanite branch of the Northwest Semitic languages. Its descendant language spoken in the Carthaginian Empire is termed Punic . Punic was still spoken in the fifth century AD and known to St. Augustine of Hippo .
Jan 18, 2012 · Our knowledge of the Phoenician language is based on the few extant written texts in Phoenician. Before circa 1000 BCE Phoenician was written using cuneiform symbols that were common across Mesopotamia. The first signs of the Phoenician alphabet found at Byblos are clearly derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics, and not from cuneiform.
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A variant of Phoenician, known as Punic, was spoken in Carthage, a Phoencian colony in what is now Tunisia, until the 6th century AD. The native name for the language was (ःँओऌ) ऐऍऍऌ \ ऊऍऀऍऌ ((dabari-m) Pōnnīm / Kana'nīm), which means "Punic/Canaanite (speech)" Phoenician alphabet
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 the first mature alphabet, and attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region.
Aug 12, 2019 · Phoenician is the conventional name (from Greek) of a language belonging to the Canaanite group of the Semitic languages, spoken in a group of cities of the Lebanese coast and by inhabitants of their settlements abroad, established in the western Mediterranean since about the early eighth century bce.
