Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Phoenician

c. 1,050 BCE – 200 BCE Extinct

Phoenician (c. 1,050 BCE – 200 BCE) is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → Proto-West Semitic → Proto-Central Semitic → Proto-Northwest Semitic → Phoenician.

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ISO 639-3
phn
Glottocode
phoe1239

Canaanite language of the Levantine coast (Tyre, Sidon, Byblos). Its alphabet is the ancestor of the Greek, Latin, Aramaic and Hebrew scripts.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Semiticc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  3. Proto-West Semiticc. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  4. Proto-Central Semiticc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  5. Proto-Northwest Semiticc. 2,000 BCE – 1,200 BCE
  6. Phoenicianc. 1,050 BCE – 200 BCE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Northwest Semitic.

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