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The Punic language, also called Phoenicio-Punic or Carthaginian, is an extinct variety of the Phoenician language, ...
All that was recorded of it was a list of seven words in the late 1790s. after 1794: Magiana: Arawakan: Bolivia: Magiana, an extinct Bolivia-Parana Arawakan language of Bolivia attested only with the wordlist in Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz 1989 [1794]. after 1791: Eora: Pama-Nyungan: Queensland and New South Wales, Australia [248] after ...
Punic colonisation spread Phoenician to the western Mediterranean, where the distinct Punic language developed. Punic also died out, but it seems to have survived far longer than Phoenician, until the sixth century, perhaps even into the ninth century. [14]
In the course of the Punic wars (264–146 BC), the Romans challenged Carthaginian hegemony in the western Mediterranean, culminating in the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC, but the Punic language and Punic culture endured under Roman rule, surviving in some places until late antiquity.
Punic-language writers (2 P) T. Translators from Punic (2 P) Pages in category "Punic language" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Carthaginians spoke a variety of Phoenician called Punic, a Semitic language originating in their ancestral homeland of Phoenicia (present-day Lebanon). [190] [191] Like its parent language, Punic was written from right to left in an alphabet consisting of 22 consonants without vowels. It is known mostly through inscriptions.
It was to include all known inscriptions, engraved stones, coins and papyri, along with selected specimens of particularly important later manuscripts. [6] The original plan of the work to produce ten books: I. Phoenician and Punic; II. Hebrew language and Samaritan language, facsimiles of ancient Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts; III Aramaic ...
Pre-Roman languages of Iberia circa 300 BC. The following languages were spoken in the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman occupation and the spread of the Latin language. Aquitanian (probably closely related to or the same as Proto-Basque) Proto-Basque; Iberian; Tartessian; Indo-European languages. Celtic languages. Celtiberian; Gallaecian