Talk:Wp/phn

From Wikimedia Incubator

What script is the Phoenician wikipedia going to be in? If possible, it would be cool to see it in Phoenician script. There is a table at the English Wikipedia that includes Phoenician letters, but they show up as boxes for me, and probably just about everyone else.--Fox Mccloud 21:47, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ra

Most Phoenician tablets are first transcribed with the Hebrew script (old style, shared also by Aramaic) or Arabic, before Ancient Greek. The transcription to Latin can only be extremely imperfect, because it lacks semitic sounds (which were still present in the Ancient Greek alphabet).

I think this won't ever be an encyclopedia; at most, it will be a corpus of source texts for Wikibooks or Wikisource. I see absolutely no interest to create a Wikipedia with this extinct language.

Phoenician has always been written right-to-left. Hebrew should definitely be the prefered transcription to respect the original texts (using the Aramaic/Palestinian extension to the Old Hebrew script) if the Phoenician script is not used! Using Latin (with stupid * stars for missing Latin letters, and Theta from the IPA Latin extension) is definitely an absolute non-sense! 06:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Exactly. I mean, what a geek must that person be, that learns Phonician. Extinct language wikipedias are nonsense. Latin is not, because it is a quite active language (New Latin, I mean).--195.14.205.152 11:54, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

No nonsense if there are written text-examples --83.189.18.133 22:11, 18 February 2008 (UTC)