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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 Phoenician letter may continue a glyph from the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, either based on a hieroglyph for a tent peg or support, possibly the djed "pillar" hieroglyph 𓊽 [clarification needed] [1] (c.f. Hebrew root סמך s-m-kh 'support', סֶמֶךְ semekh 'support, rest', סוֹמֵךְ somekh 'support peg, post', סוֹמְכָה somkha 'armrest', סָמוֹכָה smokha 'stake ...
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek eta Η, Etruscan, Latin H, and Cyrillic И. While H is a consonant in the Latin alphabet, the Greek and Cyrillic equivalents represent vowel sounds, though the letter was originally a consonant in Greek and this usage later evolved into the rough breathing character. [ 1 ]
Sanchuniathon claims to have based his work on "collections of secret writings of the Ammouneis [8] discovered in the shrines", sacred lore deciphered from mystic inscriptions on the pillars which stood in the Phoenician temples, [6] lore which exposed the truth—later covered up by allegories and myths—that the gods were originally human ...
Teth, also written as Ṭēth or Tet, is the ninth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ṭēt 𐤈, Hebrew, Aramaic ṭēṯ 𐡈, and Syriac ṭēṯ ܛ, and Arabic ṭāʾ ط . The Phoenician letter also gave rise to the Greek theta (Θ), originally an aspirated voiceless dental stop but now used for the voiceless dental ...
Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic fāʾ ف , Aramaic pē 𐡐, Hebrew pē פ , Phoenician pē 𐤐, and Syriac pē ܦ. (in abjadi order ). This article contains Ugaritic text.
Edomite – an extinct Canaanite dialect of the Edomite people mentioned in the Bible and Egyptian texts. Hebrew – the only Canaanite language that is a living language, and the most successful example of a revived dead language. Moabite – an extinct Canaanite dialect of the Moabite people mentioned in the Bible.
Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae (in English: "The writing and language of Phoenicia"), also known as Phoeniciae Monumenta (in English: "Phoenician remains") was an important study of the Phoenician language by German scholar Wilhelm Gesenius.