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...are classified as Cypro-Phoenician (10th–2nd century bc) and Sardinian (c. 9th century bc) varieties. A third variety of the colonial Phoenician script evolved into the Punic and neo-Punic alphabets of Carthage, which continued to be written until about the 3rd century ad. Punic was a monumental script and neo-Punic a cursive form.
...7th century; nor that Libyan and Carthaginian traditions survived in other areas and affected the modes of acceptance of Roman civilization. As regards language, the late form of Phoenician known as Neo-Punic was still spoken fairly widely in the 4th century—for example, in the hills near Hippo Regius. Inscriptions in the language and script occurred often at the beginning of the Roman...
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