The Punic language also called Carthaginian or Phoenicio-Punic is an extinct variety of the Phoenician language a Canaanite language of the Semitic family. It was spoken in the Carthaginian empire in North Africa and several Mediterranean islands by the Punic people from about 800 BC to 600 AD. The Punics stayed in contact with Phoenicia until the destruction of Carthage by the Roman Republic in 146 BC.
ISO 639-3 code
xpu
family
Semitic languages, Canaanite languages, Central Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic languages
spoken in
Algeria, Iberian Peninsula, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Tunisia
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