Philistine language
E1003549
The Philistine language was an ancient, now-extinct tongue spoken by the Philistines in the southern Levant, known primarily from a small number of inscriptions and loanwords preserved in neighboring cultures.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Northwest Semitic language
ⓘ
ancient language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ |
| associatedPeople | Sea Peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attestedBy |
inscriptions
ⓘ
loanwords in Hebrew ⓘ loanwords in other neighboring languages ⓘ personal names ⓘ |
| era | Iron Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| extinctionPeriod | late Iron Age ⓘ |
| extinctionReason | language shift to local Semitic languages ⓘ |
| glottologCode | none ⓘ |
| hasLimitedDecipherment | true ⓘ |
| hasUncertainClassification | true ⓘ |
| hasUncertainVocabulary | true ⓘ |
| hasVeryLimitedCorpus | true ⓘ |
| influenced | Biblical Hebrew loanwords ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Canaanite languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ Phoenician NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | none ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
Ekron royal dedicatory inscription
ⓘ
inscriptions from Ashdod ⓘ inscriptions from Tell es-Safi ⓘ onomastic evidence ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Northwest Semitic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| possibleSubstrate |
Aegean language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indo-European language ⓘ |
| primarySources |
Biblical references to Philistine terms
ⓘ
archaeological inscriptions ⓘ |
| region |
Ashdod
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ashkelon NERFINISHED ⓘ Ekron NERFINISHED ⓘ Gath NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaza region NERFINISHED ⓘ coastal plain of Canaan ⓘ |
| researchField |
Semitic linguistics
ⓘ
epigraphy ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Philistia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southern Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| timeDepth | 1st millennium BCE ⓘ |
| usedBy | Philistines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Phoenician alphabet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
local Canaanite alphabet ⓘ |
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