Question

How did the Phoenicians influence language today

Answer 1

Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal (Mediterranean) region then called .... Finally, a number of late inscriptions from what is now Constantine, Algeria dated to the first century BCE make use

Answer 2

The Phoenicians influenced language through the creation of the alphabet.

Step-by-step explanation:

What led the Phoenicians to create the alphabet was precisely the need to control and facilitate trade. The Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters, only consonants, and was therefore much simpler than cuneiform and hieroglyphic writing. The Phoenician alphabet served as the basis for the Greek alphabet. This gave rise to the Latin alphabet, which in turn generated much of the words we know today, as well as the Spanish and Portuguese alphabets.