Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Punic

c. 800 BCE – 600 CE Extinct

Punic (c. 800 BCE – 600 CE) is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → … → Proto-Northwest Semitic → Phoenician → Punic.

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ISO 639-3
xpu
Glottocode
puni1241

Western descendant of Phoenician spoken in Carthage and across the western Mediterranean. Survived in North Africa into late antiquity (attested by Augustine).

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
  7. Punicc. 800 BCE – 600 CE

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