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Any of their colonies? Do you think people in Carthage - Hannibal Barca included - were mute (hint: they spoke Punic, the evolved form of Phoenician)? Sorry but the Phoenicians spoke a Semitic language, more accurately a Cana'anite language.
They spoke a mix of their language with Luwian ................since the Karatepe and the Cinekoy inscriptions have been found
I do not know what you are trying to say.............but, the phoenician bought no semitic language to any of their colonies in the med.
These are bilingual Phoenician-Luwian inscriptions from southern Anatolia. Is there any evidence of Luwian ever being spoken in Carthage, or anywhere else in the Mediterranean (hint: we have Punic inscriptions from much of the western Mediterranean)? The answer to that is no. Sorry, but Phoenician was a Semitic language, and the statement you made earlier in this thread, I'm quoting you again, is simply false:
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