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  2. Afroasiatic
  3. Semitic
  4. Phoenician
ISO 639-3 · phnphn
Afroasiatic family · extinct or historical language

Phoenician

Phoenician is an extinct or historical language of the Semitic branch (Afroasiatic). Wikidata describes it as “ancient Semitic language of the Mediterranean”.

At a glance
ISO 639-3
phn
Glottocode
phoe1239
Wikipedia
74 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
—countries
1scripts
2levels in the tree
—UNESCO level

Facts

NamePhoenician
Also calledphn, Phoenician language
Written inPhoenician script
Kindextinct or historical language

Vitality

Wikidata has no EGIDS or UNESCO rating for Phoenician yet.

family tree

From Afroasiatic to Phoenician

The branches above Phoenician, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.

where it is spoken

Distribution map

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Phoenician is spoken
Map: Fobos92 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons