Phoenician

Japanese: Phoenician
Phoenician

…Other Canaanite languages ​​include Moabite (the language of a 300-word victory monument erected by Mesha, King of Moab, east of the Dead Sea in the 9th century BCE; very close to Hebrew), Phoenician (10th-2nd centuries BCE) on the Mediterranean coast, and Hebrew, the language with the most documents. On the other hand, Aramaic gradually moved south from the upper Tigris-Euphrates region in the 2nd millennium BCE, and made its mark on the vast territory of the Persian Empire as the official language in the 6th-1st centuries BCE. It has been used by Jews, Christians, and Mandaeans since the Christian era, and is still spoken in a few small villages today. …

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Japanese:

…このほかモアブ語Moabite(死海東部のモアブの王メシャが前9世紀に建てた,300語あまりから成る戦勝記念碑の言語。ヘブライ語に非常に近い),地中海岸のフェニキア語Phoenician(前10~後2世紀),および最も多くの文書を有するヘブライ語もカナン語に属する。一方,アラム語は,前2千年紀にティグリス・ユーフラテス上流地方からしだいに南下し,前6~前1世紀にはペルシア帝国の公用語としてその広大な版図に足跡を印し,紀元後もユダヤ教徒,キリスト教徒,マンダ教徒らによって用いられ,現代でも二,三の小部落で話されている。…

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