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Â Punic Literature

The Extent of Punic Literature Over and above the thousands of inscriptions from Carthage itself and the areas in contact with Punic culture which are the only known records actually written in the Punic language, we have a certain number of Punic texts transcribed into Greek or Latin script.
All that we know so far about the history of Carthage at home and abroad and everything we learn from the Punic inscriptions indicates the existence of a body of legal and political writings, doubtless very advanced.
This is stated, in the Punic books, and confirmed by King Juba, as we know.

http://www.barca.fsnet.co.uk/carthage-literature.htm (1999 words)

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Â Talk:Semitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phoenician page proposed "Phoenician was one of the northwestern Semitic languages, those languages that include Amorite and Ugaritic, in addition to the Canaanite languages that include Phoenician, Hebrew and Aramaic." As you can see he seperates Amorite from Canaanite and replaces it with Punic.
As an Arab, I strongly disagree - Semitic is, in fact, the Arabic term (saamiyya سامية) for the Semitic languages, and is founded in myths shared as much by the Arab world as by the West.
Whether one agrees or not with the theology, he quite strongly makes the point that Hebrew, Arab and Akkadian are actually Hamitic languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Semitic_language (1999 words)

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Â PRE-ROMAN LANGUAGES AND WRITING SYSTEMS OF SPAIN

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.
In all likelihood Tartessian is nor an Iberian language neither an Indo-European one.
Attested from the IV century B.C. to the I A.C. Before the Second Punic War it is limited to the coastal zone from South France (from the river Orb: BÃ©ziers/ Narbonne) to the north of the province of Valencia, on the same latitude as Sagunto.

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~klio/rr/06-lang_spain.htm (1999 words)

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Â Romance Languages of the Mediaeval Iberian Peninsula

[1] Romance languages are derived from Latin, the common tongue of the Roman Empire which ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula from the Punic Wars in the 3rd century BCE to the Germanic invasions of the 5th century CE.
The Jewish language Ladino is mostly Castilian in nature, with bits of Hebrew and Arabic mixed in, much as Yiddish is mostly German, with admixtures of various Eastern European languages and Hebrew.
Romance languages also developed among the Jews and Moors: Ladino for the Jews and Aljamia for the Moors.

http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/pedro/iberianlang.html (1999 words)

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Â PRE-ROMAN LANGUAGES AND WRITING SYSTEMS OF SPAIN

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.
Attested from the IV century B.C. to the I A.C. Before the Second Punic War it is limited to the coastal zone from South France (from the river Orb: BÃ©ziers/ Narbonne) to the north of the province of Valencia, on the same latitude as Sagunto.
In all likelihood Tartessian is nor an Iberian language neither an Indo-European one.

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~klio/rr/06-lang_spain.htm (1999 words)

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Â BILLEP.HTM

Punic is a Semitic language, like Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic.
Both texts record the name of his father, Himilchonis Tapapius, but only the Punic gives the name of his mother, Aram, and this is in keeping with the different cultural backgrounds to the two languages: Punic very often, but Latin almost never records the name of a dedicator's mother.
The Latin reads from left to right, the Punic from right to left.

http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/roman_africa/BILLEP.HTM (482 words)

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Â Shop Fresh : Article 'Tachelhit language'

Despite the growth of Punic, Latin, and later Arabic, it remained the main language of Algeria until the invasion of the Banu Hilal in the 11th century.
Other Romance languages with a notable historical presence in Algeria include: Ladino was formerly spoken by some Algerian Jews, particularly around Oran; however, most shifted to French during the colonial period.
The Atlas languages, or more exactly Moroccan Atlas languages, are a subgroup of the Northern Berber languages spoken in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

http://www.shop-fresh.net/DisplayArticle600864.html (478 words)

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Â Saudi Aramco World : Europe’s New Arabic Connection

The language spoken there—whether it was Punic, low Latin or Greek is still uncertain—was presumably supplanted by Arabic.
Attard knows that her language is close to Arabic—so close, in fact, that she has been mistaken for an Arab while visiting Italy.
Though Arab rule in Malta lasted only until 1091, the conquering Normans allowed the Muslims to remain, and Arabic became their common language.

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200406/europe.s.new.arabic.connection.htm (478 words)

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Â Canarias: InformaciÃ³n geogrÃ¡fica e histÃ³rica

Also, a petroglyph with Punic script was found on the island of Fuerteventura, and collected by W. Pichler and read by Prof.
This language is now called GUANCHE and this denomination also corresponds and applies to the present inhabitants of the islands and those who fought against the first conquerors when they arrived.
This island was populated by a Berber group called the Zanata.

http://www.ctv.es/USERS/cnc/politica.htm (618 words)

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Â TheTower of Babel

One of the dictionaryâ€™s goal is to reconstruct the Semitic languagesâ€™ mother tongue, Proto-Semitic, spoken before the fourth millennium of C. by a highly advanced West Asian population whose descendants created such key ancient cultures as Babylonian, Assyrian, Ugaritic, Biblical and Rabbinical Jewish, Phoenician-Punic, early Christian Aramaic, Pre-Islamic and early Islamic Arabic.
The Moscow school of comparative linguistics, some of whose leading members are on the faculty of Jewish University in Moscow, has been for several years tracing the origin of the world's languages to a dozen of protolanguages spoken some 11-14 thousand years ago.
This reconstruction will localize and describe the first split(s) in human language, or 'protolinguogenesis', according to A. Militarev, and indicate all subsequent fissions.

http://www.jum.ru/finproj/protol.htm (2437 words)

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Â PRE-ROMAN LANGUAGES AND WRITING SYSTEMS OF SPAIN

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.
Meridional Iberian : inscriptions in semysyllabic Iberian writing (but more akin to the Sudlusitanian than to the Levantine one) and Iberian language, usually written from right to left, but the left to right direction is also well attested.
The native ones are the Iberian systems of which there were three basic kinds clearly derived from the same ancestor system (probably Sudlusitanian or a very similar writing) which was created from the Phoenician writing ca.

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~klio/rr/06-lang_spain.htm (2437 words)

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Â NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Languages of Algeria

Latin itself, of course, was the language of the Roman occupation; it became widely spoken in the coastal towns, and Augustine attests that in his day it was gaining ground over Punic.
Most Jews of Algeria once spoke dialects of Arabic specific to their community, collectively termed "Judeo-Arabic"; however, most came to speak French in the colonial period even before emigrating to France after independence.
The Berber languages, or language, are spoken in many parts of Algeria, but mainly in Kabylie and around Batna; according to the 1966 census, 19% of Algerians speak Berber.

http://pedia.nodeworks.com/L/LA/LAN/Languages_of_Algeria (797 words)

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Â Pre-roman language

1) the languages of the historically documented colonisations: Phoenician, Punic and Greek;
The languages of the pre-roman Iberian peninsula can be classified in two groups according to their external cultural relations:
In turn, these native languages can be classified according to their genetical family relations in three groups:

http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Thread/329601 (797 words)

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Â Which Nations Involved

"Under the outline carving of a hull appears a single line of Tartessian Punic, reading from right to left, to yield:
This language can now be read with relative ease, for it proves to be no more than a dialectal variant of Phoenician.
In 1780 it was described and recorded by Ezra Stiles, who later became president of Yale College.

http://www.soulsurvival.info/Chpt5.htm (797 words)

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Â Synonyms of punic

usage: of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language; "the Punic Wars"; "Carthaginian peace"
usage: tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

http://www.infoplease.com/thesaurus/punic (68 words)

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Â Afroasiatic languages on Encyclopedia.com

BC The language is also preserved in inscriptions from ancient Phoenician colonies, especially Carthage, whose language was a variant of Phoenician known as Punic.
All Semitic languages are writtten from right to left except Ethiopic, Assyrian, and Babylonian, which are written from left to right.
Another theory holds that the language family came into being in Africa, for only in Africa are all its members found, aside from some Semitic languages encountered in SW Asia.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Afroasia_TheRoleofSemiticLanguagesintheDevelopmentofWritingSystems.asp (2154 words)

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Â THE BERBERS OF NORTH AFRICA

They are spoken languages transmitted orally from generation to generation, as Berber writers wrote in the languages of their conquerors: Punic, Latin, Arabic and French.
Arabic is the official language of all Maghreb states and it is also the language of religion and culture.
Carthaginian culture was Semitic and it strongly influenced the Berbers' religion and language.

http://www.angelfire.com/az/rescon/mgcberbr.html (7170 words)

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Â Canaanite languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

in later Punic language: in Poenulus - by Plautus - beginning of 5th-Act.
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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_language (290 words)

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Â Spain Encyclopedia Learn about the history of Guitars Lessons Guitar Practicing Beginning Guitar Tips for Practice

Berber language is spoken among Muslims in Ceuta and Melilla.
The Romans arrived in the Iberian peninsula during the second Punic war in the 2nd century BC, and annexed it under Augustus after two centuries of war with the Celtic and Iberian tribes and the Phoenician, Greek and Carthaginian colonies becoming the province of Hispania.
Catalan, Galician, Aranese (Occitan) and Spanish (Castilian) are all descended from Latin and have their own dialects; there are also some other surviving Romance minority languages such as Asturian, Astur-Leonese or Bable in Asturias and part of LeÃ³n; and Aragonese or fabla in part of Aragon.

http://www.guitarlessons.bizhosting.com/Spain.html (290 words)

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Â North African Language Links

Punic Language - on this site (in Arabic)
Unfortunately, most of it is complaining about the suppression of the language, which isn't very helpful to people who actually want to learn it.
For the other major first language, Tamazight (Berber), there is a fair amount on the Net.

http://www.geocities.com/lameens/darja/links.html (290 words)

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Â Sicilian language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article

(Nonclassical Latin dialects spoken in the Roman Empire; source of Romance languages) Vulgar Latin was spoken by the Roman occupation troops who garrisoned Sicily after Rome annexed the island (after the end of the First Punic War, c 261 BC), and the Sicilian language developed from this vernacular Latin spoken in Sicily.
The education system does not support the language.
Successive conquests by the (An inhabitant of Normandy) Normans, (A native or inhabitant of Spain) Spaniards, (The Romance language spoken in Catalonia in eastern Spain (related to Spanish and Occitan)) Catalans, and finally, unification with Italy, also made significant contributions to Sicilian culture.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/S/Si/Sicilian_language.htm (266 words)

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Â Untitled

Of great importance is the script to the left of the metate, which reads from right to left using the Tartessian alphabet for the Punic language.
"Tartessian is the language of Tarshish (near modern Seville, Spain) a Semitic tongue which I deciphered last year.
The grieving Maba, on his knees near his home, therefore carved the memorial on the rim of the shelter, which would appear to be upside down when viewed from the cave floor.

http://www2.privatei.com/~bartjean/chap3.htm (266 words)

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Â The Golden Ass

The wailing to be heard after the battle of Zama, which ended the Punic war, came in two languages.
Brecht's works have been translated into 42 languages.
It can make it difficult to fairly appreciate the true stature of the man, who might be counted as one of the five greatest writers in his language.

http://www.goldenass.thestoryonline.com/index.html.05_previews (266 words)

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Â Iarocci2000.html

The language of the workshop will be Italian or English according to necessity.
On the Aegadian Islands &emdash; theatre of the decisive naval battle of the first Punic War (264-241 B.C.) &emdash; suggestive neolithic and paleolithic vestiges are still visible: the grottoes of Favignana, the carvings and murals of Levanzo.
Other masterpieces of ancient civilization are to be found in the neighbourhood: at Motya (Phoenician), Segesta (Elymian), and Selinunte (Greek).

http://www.ccsem.infn.it/ccsem2000/Iarocci2000.html (266 words)

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Â Inscriptions from Biblical Times Syllabus

Richard S. Tomback, A Comparative Semitic Lexicon of the Phoenician and Punic Languages (Society of Biblical Literature.
Read: Angel Sáenz-Badillos, "Pre-exilic Hebrew," in A History of the Hebrew Language, pp.
Read: Angel Sáenz-Badillos, "Hebrew in the Context of the Semitic Languages," in A History of the Hebrew Language, pp.

http://faculty.washington.edu/snoegel/Heb42802.syll.html (266 words)

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Â Canaanite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phoenician languages (including the later Punic)-- extinct
The Canaanite languages are generally those thought to constitute the North Central branch of Semitic.
The main sources for study of Canaanite languages is the Hebrew Bible( Tanakh), and inscriptions such as:

http://www.indexlistus.de/keyword/Canaanite.php (266 words)

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Â Inscriptions from Biblical Times Syllabus

Richard S. Tomback, A Comparative Semitic Lexicon of the Phoenician and Punic Languages (Society of Biblical Literature.
Since the Philistines, Ammonites, and Edomites are vilified in the Hebrew Bible, the select inscriptions that we possess provide a great deal of contrary light on the relationship between the Ammonites and Israelites, The inscriptions also raise interesting questions as to the genetic relationship of the languages.
Though a variant dialect of ancient Hebrew, the language of the texts share much in common with Aramaic (a sister language to Hebrew), but record the earliest portions from the biblical book of Numbers.

http://faculty.washington.edu/snoegel/Heb42802.syll.html (266 words)

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Â Timeline 1200 to 1299

c1292 A “No Loitering” sign was engraved on rock at an ancient cemetery near Mill River, Mass., in the Phoenician language called Iberian Punic some 200 years before Columbus made his 1492 trip.
1232-1316 Ramon Llull proposed an artificial language that used 4 figures and 9 letters called his Ars magna.
Within about 50 years the Teutonic Knights and Knights of the Cross had overcome most of Prussia and established German as the dominant culture and language.

http://www.timelines.ws/1200_1299.HTML (10351 words)

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Â English - NSwiki

English is an offical language, along with Arabic,Latika,Urdu,Hindi, Tajik,Bangla,Sinhala,Nepalese,Dzongkha, Punic, and Sicilian
English is used primarily as a language of diplomacy and trade with other nations, and is only frequently spoken in highly globalized portions of the nation.
English is the primary language spoken by the government.

http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php?title=English&printable=yes (3341 words)

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Â Afroasiatic languages on Encyclopedia.com

BC The language is also preserved in inscriptions from ancient Phoenician colonies, especially Carthage, whose language was a variant of Phoenician known as Punic.
All Semitic languages are writtten from right to left except Ethiopic, Assyrian, and Babylonian, which are written from left to right.
Another theory holds that the language family came into being in Africa, for only in Africa are all its members found, aside from some Semitic languages encountered in SW Asia.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/A/Afroasia.asp (2179 words)