See also Phoenician language on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer . PHŒNICIAN LANGUAGE. The language spoken by the inhabitants of Phœnicia. It belonged to the Hebræo-Phœnician division of the Semitic family of languages, and represents in general an archaic stage of Hebrew and Moabitic, although it differs from the North Semitic group in ...

Support This language is in need to be revive as this language is unique and distinct from Hebrew. If a dead languages like Polabian is being on request for revival as a Wikipedia, and sooner or later as a spoken language again, so must Phoenician languages too. — Lokey3310 10:09, 15 November 2006 (UTC) Oppose . Oppose A dead language.

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 Semitic languages. The earliest …

Opposed -- I actually support dead-language Wikipedias when the language in question is well-documented, and with a long tradition of active use which has continued until the present day (such as Latin, Sanskrit, and Classical Chinese), and I participate in a minor way in the Latin Wikipedia. However, Phoenician is not particularly "well ...

en.wikipedia is is a non-peer-reviewed website with agenda and is anti-Lebanese & anti-Semitic ... Israel, Cyprus and other locations to the early Christian centuries. Punic, a language that developed from Phoenician in Phoenician colonies around the Mediterranean beginning in the 9th century BC. Punic Phoenician was still spoken in the 5th ...

A. laryngeal. consonent. A. Around 1700 B.C. this letter was used to represent alryngeal consonant ('), or glotal stop. After 900 B.C. the Greeks borrowed the sign from Phoenician and reversed its form, changed its name to Alpha and made the …

The facts, history and reasoning of the previous paragraphs produce a conclusion: "Palaeo-Hebrew" was/is nothing but Canaanite Phoenician in both language and script. Hence, the language and script of the original Bible should be called Biblical Phoenician. Even for the untrained eye, the. script above looks Phoenician.

The language is written with a 22-character alphabet that does not indicate vowels. Although the Phoenicians used cuneiform (Mesopotamian writing) in what we call Ugaritic, they also produced a script of their own. The Phoenician alphabetic script of 22 letters was used at Byblos as early as the 15th century B.C.

Phoenician Alphabet. The Greeks adopted this Phoenician alphabet, and added vowels to it. The refined combination worked very well. It enabled the philosophy of Socrates and the theater plays of Euripides — among many other great works of literature — to be passed down to us. On the Incirli Stela, Greek writing (deep incisions) was cut into ...

Phoenician alphabet.svg. English: The Phoenician alphabet. Note that ’ and ‘ were originally full consonants in the Phoenician language (glottal stop ʔ and voiced pharyngeal ʕ respectively). Several of the letters were ambiguous (i.e. denoted more than one consonant phoneme) when the Phoenician alphabet was borrowed to write Old Aramaic ...

The modern Greek alphabet has 24 letters. It is used to write the Greek language.The Greek alphabet is also frequently used in science and mathematics to represent various values or variables. Most letters in the Greek alphabet have an equivalent in the English language.. The twenty-four letters (each in uppercase and lowercase forms) are: . Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η …