Phoenician language
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phoenician-language-174-12551922
title:
Phoenician language
text:
Phoenician is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon. Extensive Tyro-Sidonian trade and commercial dominance led to Phoenician becoming a lingua franca of the maritime Mediterranean during the Iron Age. The Phoenician alphabet spread to Greece during this period, where it became the source of all modern European scripts. Phoenician belongs to the Canaanite languages and as such is quite similar to Biblical Hebrew and other l
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Ancient Semitic language of Mediterranean
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_language
date created:
2003-12-27T19:56:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:19:31Z
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