The Phoenician Alphabet & Language
World History Encyclopedia
English - July 23, 2021 01:43 - 3 minutes - 4.73 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsEducation History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The Phoenician Alphabet & Language written by Thamis and narrated by Jennifer Sabir: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/17/the-phoenician-alphabet--language/
Phoenician is a Canaanite language closely related to Hebrew. Very little is known about the Canaanite language, except what can be gathered from the El-Amarna letters written by Canaanite kings to Pharaohs Amenhopis III (1402 - 1364 BCE) and Akhenaton (1364 - 1347 BCE). It appears that the Phoenician language, culture, and writing were strongly influenced by Egypt (which controlled Phoenicia for a long time), as king Rib-Adda of Byblos admits in one of his letters to the pharaoh.
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Music Used:
Invocation (Ancient Egyptian Melody) by ÆUR