Re: Phoenicians


"BernardZ" <bernardZ@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:MPG.1e5666c774b8e7c4989886@xxxxxxx
In article <jc-dnYwMJ6ug-XbenZ2dnUVZ8qednZ2d@xxxxxxxxx>,
agamemnon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

"BernardZ" <bernardZ@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1e55d7f73e955b1d989881@xxxxxxx
> In article <dsdjg3$52n$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, joe@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> I don't know of connections during the dark ages, say 1200-800.
>>
>
> There had to be contact as the Greek alphabet was derived from the
> Phoenician one and that appears at the end of that period.

No it wasn't. The Greek alphabet was derived directly from Proto-Sinaitic in
1450 BC as was the Phoenician.

Its very unlikely that Greek alphabet was derived directly from Proto-
Sinaitic just just look at the table below. You can see that Greek is
much more similar to Early Phoenician then it is Proto-Sinaitic.

http://www.ancientscripts.com/protosinaitic.html


Nonsense. The above Proto-Sinaitic symbols date to 2200-1900 BC whereas the Cadmian script was brought to Greece 500 years later and was the same script that Phoenix (Chna in Phoenicians histories) brought to the Phoenicians so they are bound to look similar.


Proto-Sinaitic, is actually more popularly known as Proto-Canaanite
which is almost identical to old Hebrew.

There is no such thing a old Hebrew. Hebrew script is a Hellenistic derivative of Aramaic script.


What is actually extremely stunning is the names of the letters in
Proto-Sinaitic are in Hebrew even thought the symbols are different!

Those are not the names of the letters but Hebrew substitutions.


Anyway you will find this interesting as it explains quite simply the
relationships between the various languages.

http://www.ancientscripts.com/alphabet.html

Which places the node of Phoenician, Proto-Arabic and Ugratic at 1400 BC which is the time when all these scripts looked exactly the same and when this script was brought to Greece.

Archaic Greek was 5 different scripts in 900 BC not one and the only way they could have evolved into these forms is if they came from a common root script dating to 1400 BC that came from Greece, ie Cadmian.


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