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| | Phoenician languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Phoenician and Punic inscriptions are found in Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Cyprus, Sardinia, Sicily, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Malta and other locations such as the Iberian Peninsula as late as the early centuries of the Christian Era. | | | Knowledge of Hebrew aided the reconstruction of Phoenician inscriptions. | | | Formerly spoken in Lebanon, Tunisia, Spain, Malta, Southern France and Sicily and other coastal outposts and islands throughout the Mediterranean. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_languages
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| | Phoenicia Information |
| | Traditionally, the city of Thebes (Greece)Thebes was founded by a Phoenician prince named Cadmus when he set out to look for his sister Europa (mythical)Europa, who had been kidnapped by Zeus. | | | This league of independent city-state ports, with others on the islands and along other coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, was ideally suited for trade between the Levant area, rich in natural resources, and the rest of the ancient world. | | | But ultimately, the origins of the Phoenicians are still unknown: where they came from and just when (or if) they arrived, and under what circumstances, are all still energetically disputed. |
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http://www.echostatic.com/Phoenicia.html
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| | Hebrew language |
| | Semitic language used in Israel principally by Jews. | | | Hebrew comes from Egyptian "apiru", which was the designation used for class in the Egyptian society hiring themselves out for specific services. | | | It is believed that it could have been almost identical with Phoenician before this time. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/hebrew.htm
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| | Semitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With the emergence of Islam, the ascendancy of Aramaic was dealt a fatal blow by the Arab conquests, which made another Semitic language - Arabic - the official language of an empire stretching from Morocco to Pakistan. | | | Descendants of Aramaic continue to be spoken by small minorities in the mountains of northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, and Syria, while an older descendant of Aramaic, Syriac, is used liturgically by many Iraqi Christians. | | | Both are official languages of their respective countries, while Ge'ez remains the liturgical language for Christians there. |
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http://www.lighthousepoint.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Semitic_language
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| | The Cyrillic alphabet, in various forms, is used currently in Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian—languages spoken by Eastern Orthodox Christians. | | | Other ancient Semitic groups, including the early Hebrews, the Moabites, and the Aramaeans, used variants of Phoenician writing. | | | Like Phoenician and other Semitic languages, Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic are written from the right to the left. |
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http://www.ancillaryresources.mrpete.net/Alphabet.doc
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| | PRE-ROMAN LANGUAGES AND WRITING SYSTEMS OF SPAIN |
| | The few known inscriptions come from the provinces of Alicante and Murcia (the alleged Greek-Iberian lead plaque inscription from Sagunto is dubious as Greek-Iberian and maybe a fake). | | | Some researchers claim it is Celtic, in spite of the fact that it preserves Proto-Indoeuropean /p/. | | | The languages of the pre-roman Iberian peninsula can be classified in two groups according to their external cultural relations: 1) the languages of the historically documented colonisations: Phoenician, Punic and Greek; and 2) the "native" languages. |
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http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/ib1_en.htm
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| | The Old Time Gospel Ministry: Other Bible Subjects |
| | Aramaic became the language of the Jews from the late 5th century onward. | | | This became very significant because God gave his revelation of his son in the common language of the people. | | | The Greek language was the language of the New Testament. |
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http://www.theoldtimegospel.com/others/other_language.html
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| | During this time Egyptian priests, concerned with maintaining the privacy of their religion and the language of its expression, created a large number of glyphs intentionally complicating the writing system as a part of a strategy to deny literacy in Egyptian to foreigners. | | | While Coptic is no longer a spoken language, it survives in the liturgy of the Coptic Christian church. | | | The Egyptian language is a member of the Afroasiatic family of languages, a family found in the Middle East and in North Africa. |
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http://www.sonoma.edu/users/p/poe/Excursus/Egyptian/egy_writ.htm
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| | Afro-Asiatic: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Leo Reinisch (1909) proposed to link Cushitic and Chadic, while urging a more distant affinity with Egyptian and Semitic, thus foreshadowing Greenberg; but his suggestion was largely ignored. | | | All Semitic languages are writtten from right to left except Ethiopic, Assyrian, and Babylonian, which are written from left to right. | | | Tonal languages are found in the Omotic, Chadic, and South and East Cushitic branches of Afro-Asiatic, according to Ehret (1996). |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/afro-asiatic-languages
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| | Phoenician language -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The earliest form of the sign in the Semitic writings is unknown. | | | This writing was created by the Phoenicians at Byblos, the city famous for export of the writing material known as papyrus. | | | Phoenician is very close to Hebrew and Moabite, with which it forms a Canaanite subgroup of the Northern Central Semitic... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9059755
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Semitic, pt. 2 |
| | Canaanite was spoken in Biblical times in the land then called Canaan, now Israel. | | | Phoenician was spoken in what is now Lebanon prior to the 6th century C.E. It was written with its own alphabet, now generally believed to have been the forerunner of the Greek alphabet. | | | An Arab farmer found a tablet in his field in 1928 which shortly led to the discovery of Ugarit, and a number of tablets written in Akkadian, Mitanni, and Sumerian, as well as Ugaritic. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/semite2h.htm
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| | John Derbyshire on Nicholas Ostler’s Empires of the World on National Review Online |
| | Plainly, what we have been needing is an account of world history written from the linguistic point of view. | | | Languages enlarge their numbers of speakers in various ways: through trade, conquest, migration, imperial consolidation, or religious proselytizing. | | | It begins with the story of the Semitic languages, from Akkadian through Aramaic and Phoenician to Hebrew and Arabic. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/books/derbyshire200509090930.asp
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| | Phoenician languages |
| | The major drawback of this book from my standpoint is that all of the Phoenician samples have been transliterated into the Hebrew alphabet. | | | A comparative Semitic lexicon of the Phoenician and Punic languages (Society of Biblical Literature. | | | was a Semitic language closely related to Hebrew and is often classified as a Canaanite language. |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Phoenician_languages
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| | Talk:Phoenician languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | I was still convinced that there were no written records so I was just wondering what inscriptions/sources the reconstructed phoenician language was based upon. | | | I can see there are some inscriptions which form the basis for the Punic language [1], but what are the sources for the Phoenician mother language? | | | Quite a lot of inscriptions in Phoenician exist, but not many of them are online; there's a couple at [2]. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Phoenician_languages
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| | The Written Language |
| | Languages like Esperanto choose their words based on what other languages use, so that people will be used to them. | | | I claim that these symbols are "as good as you can get", because each has a feature the others do not, and that people used to writing and reading this language will be sure to include and notice the appropriate differences. | | | This is one understand of a set more more general ideas which I can best suggest with examples, as used in language. |
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http://www.mit.edu/~jrising/graphy/summary.html
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| | Articles - Canaanite languages |
| | The Canaanite languages are a subfamily of the Semitic languages, spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Hebrews, Phoenicians, and eventually Philistines. | | | All of them became extinct as native languages in the early first millennium CE, although Hebrew remained in continuous literary and religious use among Jews, and was revived as a spoken, everyday language in the nineteenth century by Eliezer Ben Yehuda. | | | in the Phoenician languages: Ahiram inscription,sarcophagus of Eshmunazar[1], Kilamuwa inscription, the Byblos inscription |
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http://www.gaple.com/articles/Canaanite_language?mySession=209c3fe59b1ad3a6a8346a7cca987a96
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| | Phoenician alphabet |
| | The names of the letter are the same as those used in Hebrew | | | The Phoenicians were great traders who travelled all around the Mediterranean, the Atlantic coast of Europe, and possibly Africa The word 'Phoenician' come from a Greek word thought to mean 'dealer in purple' | | | The Phoenician alphabet consists of 22 letters, many of which have a number of different forms, and does not indicate vowel sounds |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/phoenician.htm
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| | UTR #3 - Exploratory Proposals |
| | Later Phoenician, and Punic, and possibly some Early Aramaic. | | | The city state of Ugarit was an important seaport on the Phoenician | | | Phoenician is generally written from right to left horizontally. |
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http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr3-2
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| | The World of the Imperium Romanum |
| | Celts moved into north around the 8th or 9th century BCE, resulting in a mixed population of Celtiberians in some places. | | | The Cantabrian war (29-19 BCE) brought all of Spain under Roman domination, ending with the conquest of the Cantabri in the northwest corner of the peninsula. | | | The Carthaginian power there dates back to an even earlier Phoenician colonization of the southern coast, between about 750-550 B.C. The eastern coast in that period had Greek colonies as well. |
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http://www.aquela.com/roleplaying/SPQR/world/Hispania.html
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| | rodcorp: The map and the book (etymology) |
| | Apparently the Phoenician language (or Punic, the derivative dialect spoken in Carthage) doesn't give modern English many words, but another of them is bible, from Bublos, Byblos, the Phoenician city which exported papyrus to Greek cities, via: Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin biblia, from Greek, pl. of biblion, book. | | | The word "map" is perhaps of Punic (Phoenician) origin, via Latin and Middle English, from the table cloths that maps were first drawn on. | | | Posted on March 22, 2005 in Mapping, transport, tube |
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http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2005/03/the_map_and_the.html
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