The phenician is a Semitic Langue now disappeared, and very similar to old the Hebrew.

It appeared in Phénicie (current Lebanon) then was spread in the Mediterranean world, in particular with Carthage.

It constituted the Substrat several languages resulting from the Arab (see Dialectical Arabic), that it thus influenced to a certain extent.

The phenician was written by means of the Alphabet phenician, which evolved/moved to give in particular the Alphabet S Greek, araméen and paléo-Hebraic.

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