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phnPhoenician  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal (Mediterranean) region then called "Canaan" in Phoenician, Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic, "Phoenicia" in Greek and Latin, and "Pūt" in Ancient Egyptian. Phoenician is a Semitic language of the Canaanite subgroup; its closest living relative is Hebrew, to which it is very similar; then Aramaic, then Arabic. The area where Phoenician was spoken includes modern-day Lebanon, coastal Syria, Palestine, northern Israel (as well as parts of Cyprus – along with Greek – and, at least as a prestige language, in some adjacent areas of Anatolia ). It was also spoken in the area of Phoenician colonization along the coasts of the South-Western Mediterranean, including, notably, those of modern Tunisia and Algeria, as well as Malta, the west of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and southernmost Spain.

Entry terms

  • Phoenician language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • phn

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • phn

ISO 639-3 code

  • phn

Notation

  • phn

In other languages

  • phénicien

    French

  • Phénicien
  • Phönikisch

    German

  • Phönizisch-punische Sprache
  • fenicio

    Italian

  • Lingua fenicia
  • Portuguese

  • Língua fenícia
  • fenicio

    Spanish

  • Idioma fenicio

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/phn

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