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Dear Vadim,

There is quite a lot of inscriptions in Phoenician and Punic, so the
dialects are relatively well known. Because of lack of vowels in
Phoenician/Punic and Ugaritic there is some speculation behind the
the conclusions drawn by scholars, but by and large the grammatical
systems can be trusted.

See
  H Donner, W Röllig  (1966-1969) Kaananäische und Aramäische
Inschriften, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz,

J. D. Hawkins (2000). Corpus of hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, vol
II Karatepe Aslantas, Berlin: de Gruyter.

S. Segert (1976).  A Grammar of Phoenician and Punic, Munchen: Verlag H. Beck

M. G . A Guzzo (1999). Phönisch-Punische Grammatik, Analecta
orientalia 55, Roma:Editicie Pontificio Istituto Biblico.




Best regards

Rolf


Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo


> Dear Rolf,
>
> Can you please satisfy my curiosity? I was under impression that our
> knowledge of the Phoenician is basically speculative, based just on several
> hundred entries, certainly not something to base a theory on. Was there any
> advance I'm not aware of?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Vadim