Phoenician

//fəˈnɪʃ(ə)n//

"Phoenician" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Some say that the Berber Tifinagh alphabet was derived from the Phoenician alphabet.

Salem Chaker, a specialist of the Berber language, claims that the Tifinagh alphabet was derived from the Phoenician alphabet.

Some claim that the Berber Tifinagh alphabet was derived from the Phoenician alphabet.

The Berber Tifinagh alphabet might be derived from the Phoenician alphabet.

Hebrew and Phoenician are Canaanite languages.

Phoenician is very similar to Hebrew.

She came, the Phoenician from Bona; and she sowed discord among the brothers.

Hebrew and Phoenician belong to the Canaanite branch of the Northwest Semitic languages.

Between 1000 and 800 B.C., the Greeks adapted the Phoenician alphabet to their own language and added vowels.

Phoenician literature, written on papyrus, has mostly been lost to time and the elements.

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The term phallus is reputedly of Phoenician origin.

2007 28 July–3 August, "Phoenix: Into the ashes: A city that once won prizes is now a crime-ridden mess", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8539, page 33, Locals also moan that Phoenicians are becoming more antisocial.

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