----- Original Message ----- From: "UUC" <unikom AT paco.net>These languages all had a common ancestor, true. But no one of them is clearly older than any of the others, except perhaps for Ugaritic. There was a common ancestor, proto-Canaanite or something similar, and all of these attested languages are its descendants, the leaves on a tree but not its trunk.
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Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Prophetic Perfect? Psalm 107
Dear Rolf,several
Can you please satisfy my curiosity? I was under impression that our
knowledge of the Phoenician is basically speculative, based just on
hundred entries, certainly not something to base a theory on. Was thereany
advance I'm not aware of?
The Phoenicean language (Punic) was still spoken in the 5th century.
Augustine was facile in it. The Canaanite languages, including Phoenician,
descended from Ugaritic. Phoenician spawned Punic, Moabite, Edomite, Hebrew
and Ammonite. A bibliography of Phoenician dictionaries and grammar can be
found at:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/neareast/phoenlang.html
Jack
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