# The Phoenician Alphabet & Language — WHE Article Discussion (2-17)

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**Created:** [January 18, 2012, 8:39am UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/the-phoenician-alphabet-language-whe-article-discussion-2-17/18464 "2012-01-18T08:39:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 8:39am UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/the-phoenician-alphabet-language-whe-article-discussion-2-17/18464/1 "2012-01-18T08:39:40Z")

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Phoenician is a Canaanite language closely related to Hebrew. Very little is known about the Canaanite language, except what can be gathered from the El-Amarna letters written by Canaanite kings to Pharaohs Amenhopis III (1402 - 1364 BCE) and Akhenaton (1364 - 1347 BCE). It appears that the Phoenician language, culture, and writing were strongly influenced by Egypt (which controlled Phoenicia for a long time), as king Rib-Adda of Byblos admits in one of his letters to the pharaoh.

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_This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at [https://www.worldhistory.org/article/17/the-phoenician-alphabet--language/](https://www.worldhistory.org/article/17/the-phoenician-alphabet--language/)._

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