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The dialect differed from the earlier Punic language, as is evident from divergent spelling compared to earlier Punic and by the use of non-Semitic names, mostly of Libyco-Berber or Iberian origin. The difference was due to the dialectal changes that Punic underwent as it spread among the northern Berber peoples . [ 12 ]
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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 .
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.
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 ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Western varieties are influenced by the Berber languages, Punic and by Romance languages.
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:
Augustine is the last ancient writer to indicate that the Punic language was widely spoken. [70] The last remains of a distinct Punic culture probably disappeared somewhere in the chaos during the fall of the Western Roman Empire.