Punic alphabet
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ALPHABET, HEBREW — The origin of alphabetic script has always been a subject of human curiosity. According to Greek mythology, script was brought to Greece from Phoenicia. This tradition was accepted by the Greek and Roman writers, some of whom developed it even… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
alphabet — /al feuh bet , bit/, n. 1. the letters of a language in their customary order. 2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic… … Universalium
libyan alphabet — noun Usage: usually capitalized L : an alphabet of consonantal characters of simple geometric form of uncertain origin but perhaps derived in part from the Punic or neo Punic alphabet in which several hundred inscriptions in the Libyan language… … Useful english dictionary
Phoenician alphabet — Infobox Writing system name=Phoenician alphabet type=Abjad languages=Phoenician time=Began 1050 BC, and gradually died out during the Hellenistic period as its evolved forms replaced it fam1=Egyptian hieroglyphs fam2=Proto Sinaitic fam3=Proto… … Wikipedia
Phoenician alphabet — writing system that developed out of the North Semitic alphabet and was spread over the Mediterranean area by Phoenician traders. It is the probable ancestor of the Greek alphabet and, hence, of all Western alphabets. The earliest… … Universalium
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet — Type Abjad … Wikipedia
Latino-Punic — noun Punic text written using the Latin alphabet … Wiktionary
Giorgio Levi Della Vida — (August 22, 1886, Venice December 25, 1967, Rome) was an Italian Jewish linguist who focused on Hebrew, Arabic, and other Semitic languages, as well as on the history and culture of the Near East.Born in Venice to a Jewish family originally from… … Wikipedia
Ancient Rome — For the modern day city, see Rome. For Other uses, see Ancient Rome (disambiguation). The Roman Forum, the political, economic, cultural, and religious center of the city during the Republic and later Empire, now lies in ruins in modern day Rome … Wikipedia
History of ancient Tunisia — The present day Republic of Tunisia, al Jumhuriyyah at Tunisiyyah , has over ten million citizens, almost all of Arab Berber descent. The Mediterranean Sea is to the north and east, Libya to the southeast, and Algeria to the west. Tunis is the… … Wikipedia
