Phoenician language

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The Phoenician language was an ancient Northwest Semitic tongue, written in a consonantal alphabet that became the ancestor of many later writing systems, including Greek and Latin scripts.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Phoenician language canonical 26
Phoenician 13
Punic language 12

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northwest Semitic language
ancient language
ancestorOf Arabic alphabet
Aramaic alphabet
Greek alphabet
Hebrew alphabet
Latin alphabet
Nabataean alphabet
Paleo-Hebrew script
linked to: Hebrew alphabet

Phoenicio-Punic language
linked to: Phoenician language

Punic language
Syriac alphabet
associatedWith Carthage
Sidon
Tyre
attestedFrom c. 11th century BCE
attestedUntil early 1st century CE
branchOf Canaanite languages
closelyRelatedTo Ammonite language
Edomite language
Hebrew language
Moabite language
developedFrom Canaanite languages
Proto-Canaanite language
era 1st millennium BCE
extinct true
iso639-2 phn
iso639-3 phn
languageFamily Semitic languages
linguisticTypology fusional language
morphology root-and-pattern morphology
phonology emphatic consonants
primaryUsers Phoenicians
region Eastern Mediterranean
Levant
linked to: Levant region

Phoenicia
scriptType abjad
consonantal alphabet
standardizedVowelNotation absent
subfamily Northwest Semitic languages
linked to: Northwest Semitic
usedFor diplomacy
religious inscriptions
trade
vowelIndication matres lectionis
writingDirection right-to-left
writingMaterial metal inscriptions
ostraca
stone inscriptions
writingSystem Phoenician alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (56)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Phoenician civilization hasLanguage Phoenician language
Semitic languages hasLanguage Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Hannibal nativeLanguage Punic language
subject linked to: Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
linked to: Phoenician language
Hannibal languageSpoken Punic language
subject linked to: Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
linked to: Phoenician language
Aramaic closelyRelatedTo Phoenician language
Carthage languageUsed Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Moabite sharesIsoglossWith Phoenician-Punic
linked to: Phoenician language
Northwest Semitic hasMember Phoenician-Punic
linked to: Phoenician language
Northwest Semitic hasMember Byblian Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Punic script usedForLanguage Punic language
linked to: Phoenician language
Byblos historicalLanguage Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Tyre historicalLanguage Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Sidon languageHistoricallySpoken Phoenician language
Phoenician language ancestorOf Phoenicio-Punic language
linked to: Phoenician language
Phoenician religion usesLanguage Phoenician language
Motya languageInAntiquity Phoenician language
Numidia language Punic language
linked to: Phoenician language
Hasdrubal Barca language Punic language
linked to: Phoenician language
Canaanites language Phoenician language
Elissa languageContext Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Carthaginian Empire officialLanguage Punic language
linked to: Phoenician language
Pyrgi hasLanguageEvidence Phoenician language
Thefarie Velianas hasLanguageOfInscription Phoenician language
Deir Alla dialect relatedTo Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Canaanite shift affectsLanguage Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Gbl hasLanguageHistoricallySpoken Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Ugaritic language closelyRelatedTo Phoenician language
Malaka hasLanguageOrigin Phoenician language
Punic people language Punic language
subject linked to: Punic (Carthaginian) people
linked to: Phoenician language
Canaanite languages hasPart Phoenician language
Canaanite languages hasPart Punic language
linked to: Phoenician language
Canaanite languages hasPart Byblian Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Edomite language closelyRelatedTo Phoenician language
Canaanite religion hasLanguageOfSources Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Proto-Canaanite language ancestorOf Punic language
linked to: Phoenician language
Proto-Canaanite language followedBy Phoenician language
Moabite language closelyRelatedTo Phoenician language
Ammonite language closelyRelatedTo Phoenician language
Arados language Phoenician language
Aradus language Phoenician language
Arvad hasLanguage Phoenician language
Citium hasLanguage Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Punic Sicily language Punic language
linked to: Phoenician language
Punic Sicily language Phoenician language
Zarephath hasLanguage Phoenician
subject linked to: Zarephath (biblical town)
linked to: Phoenician language
Phoenician Pe usedForLanguage Phoenician language
Abjad typicalLanguages Phoenician
linked to: Phoenician language
Phoenician shophet derivesFromLanguage Phoenician language
Carthaginian popular assembly usedLanguage Punic language
linked to: Phoenician language