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1 giorno fa · The Phoenician language was a member of the Canaanite branch of the Northwest Semitic languages. Its descendant language spoken in the Carthaginian Empire is termed Punic . Punic was still spoken in the fifth century AD and known to St. Augustine of Hippo .
2 giorni fa · In its modern form, Greek is the official language of Greece and Cyprus and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. It is spoken by at least 13.5 million people today in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Albania, Turkey, and the many other countries of the Greek diaspora .
- 13.5 million (2012)
15 ore fa · The history of the Greek alphabet began in at least the early 8th century BCE when the Greeks adapted the Phoenician alphabet for use with their own language. [58] : 62 The letters of the Greek alphabet are more or less the same as those of the Phoenician alphabet, and in modern times both alphabets are arranged in the same order. [58]
2 giorni fa · Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC. Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization. It was succeeded by Linear B, which was used by the Mycenaeans to write an early form of Greek.
- left-to-right
- 'Minoan' (unknown)
- Linear A
- Cretan hieroglyphs
2 giorni fa · Carthaginians spoke a variety of Phoenician called Punic, a Semitic language originating in their ancestral homeland of Phoenicia (present-day Lebanon). [191] [192] Like its parent language, Punic was written from right to left in an alphabet consisting of 22 consonants without vowels.
2 giorni fa · Historically Phoenician alphabet, Aramaic alphabet: Language codes; ISO 639-3: Variously: arc – Imperial Aramaic syc – Classical Syriac myz – Classical Mandaic xrm – Armazic language bjf – Barzani Neo-Aramaic bhn – Bohtan Neo-Aramaic hrt – Hertevin Neo-Aramaic aij – Inter-Zab Neo-Aramaic tmr – Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
2 giorni fa · A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised purposes thereafter. In addition to representing a sound value (a phoneme ), runes can be used to represent the ...
