Concept information
Preferred term
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
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phénicien
French
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Phénicien
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Phönikisch
German
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Phönizisch-punische Sprache
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fenicio
Italian
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Lingua fenicia
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Portuguese
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Língua fenícia
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fenicio
Spanish
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Idioma fenicio
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/phn
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