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Phoenician

Phoenician. Brandon Bonds, Hannah Mclain , Trey Freeman, Dom Davis, Devonta Mitchell. What was it?. Phoenician, a Northern Semitic language which originated in about the 11th century BC Then fully Developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, during the 15th century BC.

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Phoenician

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  1. Phoenician Brandon Bonds, Hannah Mclain, Trey Freeman, Dom Davis, Devonta Mitchell

  2. What was it? • Phoenician, a Northern Semitic language which originated in about the 11th century BC • Then fully Developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, during the 15th century BC. • Is a Canaanite language Closely related to Hebrew. • First signs were found at Byblos and derived from the Egyptian Hieroglyphics.

  3. Where was it used? • Phoenician spread around the Mediterranean, particularly to Tunisia, southern parts of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), Malta, southern France and Sicily, and was spoken until the 1st century AD. • When the Phoenicians began using the alphabet as a simple and easy way to keep track of their trades, it was exposed to everyone

  4. Who used it? • Greeks adopted the alphabet and added vowels to it. • The Etruscans in Italy were familiar with the Phoenician alphabet. • We are often told that the Phoenicians invented the alphabet, though some debate this. Regardless of who put pen to papyrus to create it, the Phoenician contribution was none-the-less major and critical. They were the major sea-traders of the Mediterranean, and they went everywhere.

  5. When was it used? • By 1000 BC the Phoenician language and Hebrew languages had become distinct from Aramaic, which was spoken in Canaan. • Before circa 1000 BC Phoenician was written using cuneiform symbols that were common across Mesopotamia. The first signs of the Phoenician alphabet found at Byblos are clearly derived from the Egyptian hieroglyphics.

  6. Greek

  7. What was it? • Is a country in southeastern Europe • Place of Western,Mathematics,History, Drama, Euripides, and Olympic Games. • Mainland Greece is a large peninsula surrounded on three sides by the Mediterranean Sea A map showing ancient Greece at the time of Theban hegemony, 371 BCE to 362 BCE.

  8. When was it used? • Greek were the first Europeans to learn to write with an alphabet. • From the shape of the letters, Greek adopted the alphabet the Phoenician script. • They modified the extraneous letters to represent vowels.

  9. Greek was written right-to-left, just like Phoenician

  10. Where was it used? • Its located in Eastern Mediterranean • The Greek language holds an important place in the histories of Europe

  11. Who used it? • Greek belongs to the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European language family, and is spoken by about 13 million people mainly in Greece and Cyprus, where it is an official language. • Greek was first written in Mycenae with a script known as Linear B, which was used between about 1500 and 1200 BC

  12. Latin Alphabet

  13. what is it • Latin is the language that was originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English.

  14. When was used • Latin was brought to Italy about 1000 BC by Indo-European immigrants from Northern Europe.

  15. Who used it • Latin is an old language that was spoken by the Romans and others. People do not write or speak Latin very much in this day in age.

  16. The End

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