Phoenician Fun

The Phoenician script Phoenician script dates from about 1050 BCE, and from it Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic (Russian) all evolved.The Phoenician civilization was centered along the Mediterranean coast in an area known as Cana'an. The map below shows a number of Phoenician cities and nearby cities that were important trading partners. The spellings reflect their pronunciation in the Phoenician language. However, two of the cities on the map are shown with their modern names which are very different from what they were called in Phoenician times.Use the map below to decipher the Phoenician spellings. There are 10 cities on the map below, but only 8 of them match their Phoenician names. Match up the Phoenician spellings below with the names on the map. Remember, two spellings do not match, so you'll have two city names left over. 1 6 2 7 3 8 4 9 5 10 Now match the city names on the map with the numbers from the table above. Two city names in the map don't line up with the map. Use X for those. Aynuk 6 Beritos 10 Ebla 7 Halab 2 Megiduw 4 Palmyra X Qadesh 9 Riblah 3 Tripoli X Tsarephath 1 North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition This exercise was part of the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition This exercise contributed by NACLO online