Introduction to the Grammar of the Phoenician-Punic Language

This book aims to meet the needs of the specialized scientific library and science students studying the Phoenician-Punic language, given the lack of Arabic references, specialists, and literary sources in the Phoenician language that could provide the Arab reader with a comprehensive and accurate conception of the history, language, and civilization of the Phoenicians, the book came about to address part of this shortcoming, containing a group of Phoenician texts to explain its grammar. The book utilized previous Arabic and foreign studies while explaining the phonetic systems, morphology, sentence structure, and the verb and its tense in the Punic language. It also relied on a group of Canaanite Aramaic, as well as Canaanite Phoenician inscriptions discovered in the Phoenician East. The Arabic and Phoenician languages belong to a group ​​​​branching from the mother language (ancient Arabic). The considerable closeness between them has led some researchers to encourage the use of the Arabic script when writing Semitic languages ​​instead of Hebrew and Latin. This aspect motivated the author to write the Phoenician texts within the book in Arabic script to make it easier for the Arab reader to read.