Philistine language
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| Philistine | ||
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| Spoken in: | Formerly spoken in southwestern Israel | |
| Language extinction: | 5th century BC | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Canaanite Philistine |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sem | |
| ISO 639-3: | aoq | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Philistine language is the extinct language of the Philistines, along the coastal strip of southwestern Canaan. Very little is known about the language, one dialect of which is referred in the Bible as "Ashdodit" (i.e., from the city Ashdod). There is not enough information of the language of the Philistines to relate it to any other languages. One theory is that the language is part of the Canaanite dialect continuum or may have been related to Mycenaean Greek, due to the "sea peoples" origin theory (see Philistines).
The Ekron inscription is the first body of text to be identified as Philistine text.
[edit] External links
- The Canaanite Dialect of the Dedicatory Royal Inscription from Ekron, 2004 - A summary of articles about the Ekron inscription.
