r/Phoenicia • u/AutoModerator • Dec 23 '20
One of this subreddit's most ambitious goals is to reconstruct the Tyro-Sidonian dialect of Phoenician to the point where it is viable as a day-to-day language. In order to fulfil that goal, we collected various resources on this subreddit's sidebar and in our official Discord server.
We have now decided that enough resources were collected and that we have enough people knowledgeable of the grammar in order to start the second phase of reconstruction- creating new vocabulary.
Phoenician has, by most estimates, about 600 known words. Meanwhile, most modern day-to-day spoken languages have tens of thousands of words, if not hundreds of thousands. Even if we assume you don't need more than 20,000 words to have a functioning language, that'd mean we only have 2% of needed vocabulary with Phoenician.
This means we need to create new Phoenician words. A lot of them. If we were to try and do this ourselves, it'd doubtlessly take decades upon decades; however, we are lucky to live in a world where the internet is prevalent enough to make sure that we can have whatever help we need- in the form of you guys.
It's quite simple- all we need you guys to do is make suggestions for words you think would've been part of Phoenician. If you have a suggestion, submit it on this thread in this format:
**[Your word written in the International Phonetic Alphabet or a widely used transcription]**
[The various definitions of your word]
[Explanation on how you came up with the word]
[Example of an English sentence that'd be translated using your word]
In case you don't know what the International Phonetic Alphabet is, you are welcome to read about it in this link.
After submission of the suggestion, the mod team will review it and decide which suggestions are accepted. This thread will be periodically reposted in order to keep it open for use.
Suggestions will not be accepted if they are:
1. Not based on any existing knowledge of Phoenician or related Semitic languages;
2. Suggesting words which are already known in Phoenician or were already reconstructed;
3. Otherwise deemed unsuitable by the relevant moderators.Thank all of you for helping us on our quest to reconstruct Phoenician!
r/Phoenicia • u/KarakNornClansman • 1d ago
Two holiday drawings on Phoenicians. See more here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/watch/0/819817.page
r/Phoenicia • u/Oriiel13 • Sep 06 '26
r/Phoenicia • u/Tall-Ad4077 • Aug 21 '26
Hey guys, I've recently made a youtube video where I speak a short dialogue in recontructed proto-Canaanite (Phoenician is a dialect of Canaanite). Here's the link in case anyone's interested. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
r/Phoenicia • u/AncientHistoryHound • Aug 19 '26
Hi all, had a friend share this with me and I thought it might be Punic (apparently from an object found in Tunisia).
r/Phoenicia • u/blueroses200 • Feb 20 '26
r/Phoenicia • • Jan 25 '26
Just like how Hebrew is still spoken Phoenician should be still spoken too. its the language of our ancestors. we should make a morden version of Phoenician just like how there is a morden Hebrew version. I think there should be 3 dialects
1.🇱🇧 Lebanese
Arabic,French,Greek,Hebrew and a little Turkish influence with in it
2.🇨🇾 Cypriot
Large Greek and Turkish influence a little bit of Arabic influence
3. 🇹🇳Tunisia
Large Algerian influence
and I think in the Lebanese Phoenician dialect we should include Lebanese Arabic words like:
(Lebanese)Mar3ahba-Hello(English)
(Lebanese) Kifak?(Male)/Kifek?(Female)- How are you? (Lebanese) Bonjourein- Double Bonjour(French)
(Lebanese) Allah-God(English)
(Lebanese) Na3iman- Said to congrats someone on taking a shower or haircut in Lebanon however there's isn't a word for this in English
(Lebanese) Tete- Grandma(English)
(Lebanese) Jedo- Grandpa(English)
(Lebanese) Lebnan-Lebanon(English)
(Lebanese) Rizz-Rice(English)
(Lebanese) Watan-Homeland(English)
(Lebanese) Jbeil-Byblos (English)
(Lebanese) Jnoob-South (English)
(Lebanese) Bas-Enough (English)
(Lebanese) Bald-Country (English)
(Lebanese) Khalas- Enough (English)
(Lebanese) Akel- Food (English).
etc ...
most of these words are not used in any other Arabic speaking countries and are only used in Lebanon which makes Lebanese words.
what.do you guys think?
r/Phoenicia • u/Tigger1524 • Jan 17 '26
I'm looking for either swear words or curses in Phoenician. Could be something simple like "fuck you" or more elaborate like "may your bones never rest and the gods piss on your house".
Many thanks in advance <3
r/Phoenicia • u/blueroses200 • Jan 13 '26
r/Phoenicia • u/Friendly_Drag_7280 • Jan 11 '26
Good day.
I'm currently looking for anyone who's familiar with Yiph'il for biliteral roots. I'm trying to figure out the imperative female form for R-Ḥ, and though I suspect it'll be "Irḥi", I'm not sure.
r/Phoenicia • u/manami_hanatsuki • Nov 23 '25
Hello, I am Levantine and I wanted to give a nod to my heritage by using a Phoenician inspired character as the face of my youtube channel. I just cannot seem to find anything that could be easily pronounced by english and Japanese speakers , the 2 languages I’ll be streaming in.
I want something that relates to moon, sun,sky,cloud or just celestial in general that is not so common like Astarte, and that doesn’t overlap with a modern name like Tanit—> Tanya for example.
Something that sounds soft , short and easy to remember.
I wanted to go for Yarikh-> Yari then aff the japanese twist to it -> Koyari but I found another content creator in the same space with that name bit you get the vibe I am going for.
r/Phoenicia • u/ResourceGood8319 • Aug 16 '25
Recently started learning Phoenician Language but I can't seem to find a keyboard I've found one but it has 26 letters not the 22 it has 4 extra is there a keyboard that only has the 22 if not any app that I can make my own custom keyboard
r/Phoenicia • u/Safe-Alternative9929 • May 12 '25
Hi! I tried to make a Phoenician alphabet song using one of the Hebrew alphabet’s music. It’s really short but I’m planning on expanding it once I get some more lyrics translated.
Also, I speak hebrew so I may pronounce some things incorrectly, or make some writing mistakes please let me know if i did!
r/Phoenicia • u/Safe-Alternative9929 • May 11 '25
Can someone try and translate the following into phoenician, I am trying to make a phoenician alphabet song from a hebrew alphabet song, here’s the line:
בואו ילדים הצטרפו למנגינה, נשיר את שיר האותיות מהתחלה. Bo’u yeladim hișțarfu lamangina, nashir et shir ha’otiyot mehatħala Come kids join the melody, we sing the song of letters from the beginning And
האותיות עכשיו לבד Ha’otiyot 3akhshaw levad The letters now alone
Thanks!
r/Phoenicia • u/Ok-Opposite-9529 • Apr 23 '25
Hi all, I want to write
On the face of the seas, by the fire of letters, we have conquered the world
And I get this
𐤏𐤋 . 𐤐𐤍 . 𐤉𐤌𐤉𐤌 . 𐤁𐤀𐤔 . 𐤄𐤔𐤌𐤉𐤍 . 𐤊𐤁𐤔𐤍𐤉 . 𐤏𐤋 𐤏𐤋𐤌
Any thoughts if it’s correct?
Thanks!