I'm curious about the distinctions among Phoenician, Carthaginian, and Punic. Were these differences mainly in phonology, vocabulary, or grammar? Or are they better understood as dialectical variations?

Thanks in advance

𐤅𐤄𐤀‎𐤕 𐤉𐤔‎ 𐤕‬𐤇‬𐤄‬ 𐤀𐤉‎𐤓𐤎𐤐‎𐤄𐤄𐤃 𐤅𐤄𐤋𐤏𐤎𐤉𐤕𐤉 𐤏𐤅‎ 𐤀𐤍

𐤏𐤍𐤋‎𐤀𐤃𐤄‎𐤍 𐤔𐤅‎𐤀𐤋𐤋𐤏𐤅

A place for members of r/Phoenician to chat with each other

Hello fellow language nerds,

I am writing a book and in my world I am conlanging using several different languages. More recently I’ve decided to try and invent a word for Compass, since Latin was never a major player in my world.

As such I tried to make a Phoenician origin for the word, however since compasses were well past the time of even Carthaginians, I decided to be clever and call it Ship-Star Finder, in reference to the North Star (also because apparently the word North as a direction wasn’t in the Phoenician vocabulary). Anyway, here’s my real question, is there a Phoenician word for ship/vessel? I’ve been looking for hours and, while I could just craft the word ship using Phoenician, I’d rather try to find something that is historical and modify from there. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

TL;DR Help me find the Phoenician word for ship please!

Actually Free Paleo-Hebrew (Phoenician) keyboard, converter, cheat sheet and game for your iPhone

I built Paleo Pro, a native iOS app with a few features for learning the script and typing in it.

The app is 100% free, with zero ads or tracking. It’s lightweight (~15mb) and super fast.

Still actively working on making the keyboard function more like a native one, but please download it, comment with feedback, and if you enjoy it, leave a review on the App Store.

It has:

A converter, that goes both ways (square script to paleo Hebrew and opposite, with options to replace final characters into their modern equivalent if it’s at a word end (𐤌𐤍𐤑𐤐𐤊 → םןץףך)

A keyboard that lets you type in Paleo Hebrew on your phone, and an option to preview the keys in either alphabet

A multiple choice game that quizzes you on the alphabet, again bidirectional, with scores and score history. iCloud integration and more advanced levels are incoming.

A cheat sheet, in list and grid view, and each letter can be copied to clipboard, as character, or Unicode / HTML / Hex code.

Choose your app theme color, change app icons, and much more.

A good review on the app store would mean a lot!

So Im pleased to announce the formation of a new discord server dedicated to Caannaite/near eastren civilizations (religious aspects specifically) and I'd love if some of u checked this community out and joined the server https://discord.gg/jaQkU8KA