| Punic | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Formerly spoken in North Africa | |
| Total speakers: | — | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Canaanite Punic | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sem | |
| ISO 639-3: | xpu | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. North Africa or Northern Africa is the Northernmost Region of the African Continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a Language family with about 375 languages ( SIL estimate and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa The Semitic languages are a Language family whose living representatives are spoken by more than 467 million people across much of the Middle East, The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping of Semitic languages. The Central Semitic languages are an intermediate group of Semitic languages, comprising Arabic and Northwest Semitic (including Canaanite The Northwest Semitic languages form a medium-level division of the Semitic language family. The Canaanite languages or Hebraic languages are a subfamily of the Semitic languages, which were spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's | ||
The Punic language is an extinct Semitic language formerly spoken in the Mediterranean region of North Africa by the people of the Punic culture. The Semitic languages are a Language family whose living representatives are spoken by more than 467 million people across much of the Middle East, North Africa or Northern Africa is the Northernmost Region of the African Continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan The Punics, (from Latin pūnicus meaning Phoenician were a group of Western Semitic speaking peoples originating from Carthage
Description
Punic is an extinct variety of the Phoenician language spoken in the oversea Phoenician empire in North Africa, including Carthage, and the Mediterranean. Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal region then called Pūt in Ancient Egyptian Canaan in Phoenician, Hebrew, and Carthage (Καρχηδών Karkhēdōn, Carthago from the Phoenician קרת חדשת phn-Latn Qart-ḥadašt meaning new town) refers It is known from inscriptions and personal name evidence.
Augustine of Hippo is generally considered the last major ancient writer to have some knowledge of Punic, and is considered "our primary source on the survival of [late] Punic". [1]
In the past it was sometimes said that Punic was an influence on the modern Maltese language, but this theory has been discredited. Maltese (Maltese Malti is the National language of Malta, and a co-official language of the country alongside English, [2]
References
- ^ Jongeling. Karel; & Kerr, Robert M. (2005). Late Punic Epigraphy. Mohr Siebeck, p. 4. ISBN 3161487281.
- ^ Vella, Alexandra (2004). "Language contact and Maltese intonation: Some parallels with other language varieties", in Kurt Braunmüller and Gisella Ferraresi: Aspects of Multilingualism in European Language History, Hamburg Studies on Muliculturalism. John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 263. ISBN 9027219222.
See also
The Punics, (from Latin pūnicus meaning Phoenician were a group of Western Semitic speaking peoples originating from CarthageDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic