
	Where results make sense

Topic: Punic language

Related Topics

Canaanite languages

Phoenician languages

Semitic languages

Biblical Hebrew

Punic Wars

Roderick Chisholm

Biblical Hebrew language

Phoenicia

Cushitic languages

Ammonite language

Phoenicians

Edomite language

Moabite language

Syriac language

Urartian language

In the News (Sat 5 Jul 08)

Gordon Brown

Derby County

Mike Huckabee

Lute Olson

Pearl Harbor

Sonia Gandhi

Ricky Hatton

Narendra Modi

Jesus Christ

Rudy Giuliani

	Punic Wars - MSN Encarta
		The adjective Punic (Latin Punicus) is derived from Poeni, the name by which the Carthaginians, being of Phoenician descent, were known to the Romans.
		The First Punic War (264-241 bc) was the outcome of growing political and economic rivalry between the two nations.
		A minor Carthaginian breach of treaty gave the pretext for the Third Punic War (149-146 bc), in which the Romans, led by Scipio the Younger, captured the city of Carthage, razed it to the ground, and sold the surviving inhabitants into slavery.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562033/Punic_Wars.html (669 words)

	Phoenician languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phoenician is a Semitic language of the Canaanite subgroup, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic.
		Perhaps the most interesting case of Punic influence is that of the name of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising Portugal and Spain), derived from the Punic אי שפן "I-Shaphan" meaning "coast of hyraxes", in turn a misidentification on the part of Phoenician explorers of its numerous rabbits as hyraxes.
		One of the earliest essays in Phoenician language studies was Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842), Scripturae linguaeque phoeniciae monumenta, 1837, analyzing texts from coins and monumental inscriptions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoenician_languages (1013 words)

	Punic Wars - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The Punic Wars were three wars between Rome and Carthage.
		The Romans captured Carthage in the third Punic War and destroyed the city.
		Punic Wars, name given to the three wars between Rome and Carthage in the 3rd and 2nd centuries bc.
	encarta.msn.com /Punic_Wars.html (286 words)

	Accueil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Punic inscriptions in Malta stop in the first century A.D. In the 8th century A.D. the Muslim faith was adopted, therefore the Arabic language was probably adopted too.
		In 1895, Mikiel Anton Vassali had a dream which, acknowledged as the father of the Maltese language, became reality in the early years of the 20th century because the Maltese alphabet was standardized and another ten years went by before the Maltese language was officially recognized.
		The official languages of Malta are Maltese and English ; Maltese (Malti) is inspired by the languages of civilisations which occupied Malta.
	pedagogie.ac-aix-marseille.fr /JOURNAL/mediter5/Malteselanguage.htm (414 words)

	Language
		It is found, however, that these languages are distributed in several great classes, which have striking affinities with each other; and as comparative philology extends its researches, it finds increasing evidence of the substantial oneness of the human race and of the truth of Scripture.
		The Hebrew language, in which the Old Testament was written, is but one of the cluster of cognate languages, as belonging particularly to the descendants of Shem.
		This is the primary sense of language, the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing.
	dictionary.christianpost.com /definition/language.htm (1200 words)

	Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language)
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these many Middle Easter countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		It diverged from the South Arabian languages around the beginning of the Christian era, reaching its greatest extension in the 4th century AD, when it was spoken especially in the kingdom of Aksum on either side of the present-day border of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
	phoenicia.org /semlang.html (2757 words)

	[No title]
		Punic was a Semitic language which was closely r elated to Biblical Hebrew, and it is now the common view that it was the vernacular language in Tripolitania.
		Extended Punic inscriptions appear roughly up to the end of the second century A.D., and there are indications that Punic, in some form, continued to be inscribed (in Latin lettering) until the end of the fourth century.
		Apuleius' command of the Latin language is evidenced by the mere fact of his presenting his defense in Latin, and the myriad references to Greek authors throughout the speech reinforce the impression of his fluency in Greek.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/jod/apuleius/norena.lang.html (979 words)

	Roman Africa - LoveToKnow 1911
		The term was certainly borrowed by the Romans from the language of the natives.
		By him the term was confined to the territory of Carthage and the regions composing the eastern group of the Atlas.
		During the Roman period the ancient Carthaginians of Phoenician origin and the bastard population termed by ancient authors Libyo-Phoenicians, like the modern Maltese, invariably formed the predominant population of the towns on the littoral, and retained the Punic language until the 6th century of the Christian era.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Roman_Africa (2534 words)

	Languages : Afro-Asiatic Family
		It is the language of the Quran and of Islam.
		Coptic, is the liturgical language of the Egyptian Coptic Church.
		This language family originated in the Sahara area before it became a desert and spread to the Horn of Africa, North Africa and the Middle East.
	www.krysstal.com /langfams_afroasia.html (590 words)

	Punic Wars. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Punic army arrived in Sicily first, arranged a peace between Messana and Syracuse, and established a garrison.
		This excursion was a failure, and its commander, Regulus, was captured (255) by the Greek mercenary general Xanthippus.
		The terms were the payment of an indemnity and the cession of Punic Sicily to Rome.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pu/PunicWar.html (584 words)

	A new interpretation of "the True Celtic Language and the Cromleck of Rennes-les-Bains"
		This language is universal and appears in the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, the same Rabelais had used, like Cyrano of Bergerac in "the States and Empire of the Moon" where the birds speak.
		This language of the initiate is also that of heraldry, which is deciphered like a rebus, it is also the language that makes it possible to understand the sculptures of the Gothic cathedrals.
		The slang was the incomprehensible language of the manufacturers, the underworld slang, which by reduction became “slang”, which was regarded as a language reserved for a quite precise community.
	www.perillos.com /celtique1.html (3231 words)

	Sardinia: Frontier, Cities, and Towns
		Also during the late republican or early imperial period, the sanctuary of the Doric semicolumns was equipped with a new temple, Temple K was rebuilt, and a tetrastyle temple was constructed over some Punic and late Republican houses; this last may be the Capitolium, erected in conjunction with the city's elevation to municipal status.
		At Sulcis, now S. Antioco, a temple was dedicated to the Punic deity Elat in the first century BCE, and numerous inscriptions attest to the continued use of the Punic language there through the Republic.
		Continuity from the Punic period and the restructuring of the temple of Bes have already been noted, and recently excavated burials suggest a relatively high level of prosperity through the third century CE.
	www.usd.edu /erp/Sardinia/cities.htm (2083 words)

	Proto-Semitic Language and Culture. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A distinctive characteristic of the Semitic languages is the formation of words by the combination of a “root” of consonants in a fixed order, usually three, and a “pattern” of vowels and, sometimes, affixes before and after the root.
		Since English is an Indo-European language and therefore not genetically related to the Semitic family, all words of Semitic origin in English are loanwords.
		B.C. In spite of the fact that the Semitic languages have been known and studied by scholars for many hundreds of years, the comparative reconstruction of Proto-Semitic is in many ways still in its infancy.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/61/10.html (3655 words)

	Phoenicia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Yet it is room for the theory of immigration, as this could have involved a limited immigration, with the change of language and some traditions as a result.
		Phoenician language was a Semitic language of the Northwestern group, as well as of the Canaanite group.
		Punic language would be strongly influenced by the original Berber languages of the region, and would survive as language long after the decline of the Punic cities as a language in the rural areas until 6th century CE.
	i-cias.com /e.o/phoenicia.htm (1600 words)

	Northwest Semitic Philology
		The areas of secondary study are: the languages necessary for historical research (Aramaic, and e.g., Arabic, Greek, or Latin), and the history and culture of ancient Palestine.
		In addition to the language requirements, each student is expected to be proficient in another major Semitic language and in the history and archaeology of the ancient Near East (and of Syria-Palestine in particular).
		I. Language examinations do not test simple language competence or only the material covered in courses but the student's command of the full range of philology in the area at the appropriate level.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /depts/nelc/programs/NWSemitics_prog.htm (1449 words)

	LANGUAGES OF THE BIBLE.
		The Hebrew language is one of a large group of dialects embraced under the term Semitic—from Shem, the oldest son of Noah.
		Old Testament Hebrew was closely related to the languages of the nations bordering of Palestine in early times, as is shown by the inscription on the Moabite stone, and by many Phoenician inscriptions.
		As a spoken language it was subject to certain provincialisms, as all languages are; but as a written language, and especially for sacred purposes, it remained comparatively unchanged from the thne of Moses to the captivity.
	www.holybible.com /resources/poems/ps.php?sid=235 (368 words)

	Sigma Tau Delta: The International English Honor Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A member of the Kwa branch of Niger-Congo languages, Ewe is spoken largely in Ghana and Togo, and it is believed to have originated in the region now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo.
		Swahili is a Niger-Congo language spoken in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and the island of Zanzibar.
		Temne is a Mel language (southern branch of the West Atlantic branch of Niger Congo) and is spoken in the northern half of Sierra Leone.
	www.english.org /enews_quiz_2_04.shtml (458 words)

	How Our Language Got This Way - June 29, 2005 - The New York Sun
		Because it is the first language of the world's greatest power, it is a second language everywhere: English can't boast as many speakers as Mandarin or Hindi, but the Chinese and the Indians are eager to learn it.
		Egyptian, the language of the pyramids and their hieroglyphics, was spoken along the Nile from the dawn of time until the Islamic invasions of the seventh century A.D.; now it survives only in vestigial form, in the dialect of the few remaining Coptic Christians.
		Punic, the language spoken by Rome's great rival Carthage, has vanished completely: Though Phoenician traders spread it around the Mediterranean, not a single text survives.
	www.nysun.com /article/16263 (584 words)

	Main Page - Langmaker
		Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, ISBN 0766195767, was written by the renowned linguist Edward Sapir, who writes in the preface, "This little book aims to give a certain perspective on the subject of language rather than to assemble facts about it...
		Its main purpose is to show what I conceive language to be, what is its variability in place and time, and what are its relations to other fundamental human interests—the problem of thought, the nature of the historical process, race, culture, art.
		Lapine, the language he sketches for his rabbits, is arguably the best naming language ever created, and is a minimalist virtuoso performance, a haiku of a language compared to the sonnet of Sindarin.
	www.langmaker.com (1272 words)

	Romanization
		Near the end of the first century after Christ, it was still allowable to erect a temple to the Punic goddess.
		A Punic sanctuary at Hadrumetum remained in use until the early second century, and the Punic language was still spoken in Numidia until early in the fifth century.
		Romanization was rapid thereafter, with Punic names dying out among leading citizens by the end of the first century after Christ.
	www.usd.edu /~clehmann/pir/romanize.htm (258 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home
		In those cases, where the speakers are not interested in preserving their languages, the work of the CCELA is limited to linguistic stocktaking in order to provide the descendants with the possibility to revitalize their ancestors‘ language.
		The alphabetization of the language and the recording of traditional texts change the cultural dynamics of the oral tradition: from the moment these texts are recorded they lose their variable character.
		Surprisingly, the language does not seem unduly threatened; during the language elicitation session it seemed that many of the children present were able to produce the required lexical items simultaneously with the adults.
	www.ogmios.org /94.htm (4846 words)

	Amazon.com: The Punic Wars: Books: Adrian Goldsworthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Goldsworthy explains complicated military moves in easily understood language, and he conveys the vast scope and carnage of the wars with both insight and objectivity.
		Toward the end of his fascinating history of the Punic Wars, author Adrian Goldsworthy speculates that one of the reasons for Carthage's fall is that the African empire was too exclusively mercantile in its mindset.
		Punic Wars by Adrian Goldsworthy proves to be a well written and well researched book on the series of wars fought between the North African city of Carthage and the Roman Republic.
	www.amazon.com /Punic-Wars-Adrian-Goldsworthy/dp/0304352845 (2622 words)

	Phenicians of Malta and their Language
		A genetic study of modern Maltese poves that half of them carry Phoenician genetic identifiers and their language seems to be very close to the Lebanese language.
		The main problem with the Punic tongue is that nowadays it is a 'dead language' to which no one really knows the true pronunciation of the written text.
		Classic literature suggesting that the small Maltese population of Punic times preferred Roman rule over the Carthaginian should be taken in the light of the known Roman bad-press against the Punic.
	phoenicia.org /maltese.html (2273 words)

	Punic Wars - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The settlement flourished, and in the Punic Wars it...
		Cannae, ancient town of Italy, in the Apulia region, near the mouth of the Aufidus (now Ofanto) River.
		In 216 bc, during the Second Punic War, Cannae...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Punic_Wars.html (160 words)

	Arabic language and history by ALS International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Arabic is the official language of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, and Yemen as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
		Semitic languages have a recorded history going back thousands of years—one of the most extensive continuous archives of documents belonging to any human language group.
		While the origins of the Semitic language family are currently in dispute among scholars, there is agreement that they flourished in the Mediterranean Basin area, especially in the Tigris-Euphrates river basin and in the coastal areas of the Levant.
	www.alsintl.com /languages/arabic.htm (891 words)

	Libya Tripolitania and the Phoenicians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Punic settlements on the Libyan coast included Oea (Tripoli), Labdah (later Leptis Magna), and Sabratah, in an area that came to be known collectively as Tripolis, or "Three Cities".
		Fear of a Carthaginian revival, however, led Rome to renew the war, and Carthage was destroyed in 146 B.C. Tripolitania was assigned to Rome's ally, the Berber king of Numidia.
		The Punic language was still spoken in the towns of Tripolitania and by Berber farmers in the coastal countryside in the late Roman period.
	www.country-studies.com /libya/tripolitania-and-the-phoenicians.html (272 words)

	BRILL
		Charles R. Krahmalkov, Ph.D. (1965) in Oriental Languages, is Professor of Ancient and Biblical Languages in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan.
		Included are fully vocalized Punic and Neo-Punic inscriptions of Roman Tripolitiana in Latin orthography as well as the literary fragments of Punic drama as found in Plautus' comedy Poenulus.
		Hebraists and Semitists will find the description of the verbal system of particular interest to them, especially that of the literary language, which holds that tense and aspect reference of a given form of the verb is largely a function of syntax, not morphology.
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=9274 (598 words)

	CHURCH FATHERS: Letter 17 (St. Augustine)
		For, from the language of your letter, I am at a loss to know whether it is due to the weakness of your cause, or through the courteousness of your manners, that you have preferred to show yourself more witty than weighty in argument.
		I do not suppose that these were absent from your mind when you were writing, but that, with your courtesy and genial humour, you wished for the unbending of our minds, to recall to our recollection what ludicrous things are in your superstition.
		And if the Punic language is rejected by you, you virtually deny what has been admitted by most learned men, that many things have been wisely preserved from oblivion in books written in the Punic tongue.
	www.newadvent.org /fathers/1102017.htm (975 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)