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The Punic language, also called Phoenicio-Punic or Carthaginian, is an extinct variety of the Phoenician language, ...
The Phoenician alphabet proper was used in Ancient Carthage until the 2nd century BC, where it was used to write the Punic language. Its direct descendant scripts include the Aramaic and Samaritan alphabets, several Alphabets of Asia Minor , and the Archaic Greek alphabets .
Phoenician (/ f ə ˈ n iː ʃ ən / fə-NEE-shən; Phoenician: śpt knʿn lit. ' language of Canaan ' [2]) is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
The Tripolitania Punic inscriptions are a number of Punic language inscriptions found in the region of Tripolitania – specifically its three classical cities of Leptis Magna, Sabratha and Oea (modern Tripoli), with the vast majority being found in Leptis Magna.
All of the other Canaanite languages seem to have become extinct by the early first millennium AD except Punic, which survived into late antiquity (or possibly even longer). Slightly varying forms of Hebrew preserved from the first millennium BC until modern times include:
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/Dharug: Pama-Nyungan: Queensland and New South Wales, Australia [251 ...
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.
An inscription from one of the gates to the theatre at Leptis Magna, indicating that Latin and Punic co-existed in Northern Africa for centuries.. Like all Romance languages, African Romance descended from Vulgar Latin, the non-standard (in contrast to Classical Latin) form of the Latin language, which was spoken by soldiers and merchants throughout the Roman Empire.