Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal (Mediterranean) region then called Canaan in Phoenician Arabic Greek and Aramaic Phoenicia in Greek and Latin and Pūt in Ancient Egyptian. Phoenician is a Semitic language of the Canaanite subgroup; its closest living relative is Hebrew to which it is very similar.
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Semitic languages, Canaanite languages, Central Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic languages
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