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Philistine language
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| Philistine Canaanite | |
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| Native to | Philistia |
| Ethnicity | Philistines |
| Extinct | c. 7th century BC |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
| Philistine Indo-European | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Philistia |
| Ethnicity | Philistines |
| Extinct | c. 9th century BC |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
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The Philistine language (/ˈfɪləstiːn, ˈfɪləstaɪn, fəˈlɪstən, fəˈlɪstiːn/)[3] is the extinct language of the Philistines. Very little is known about the language, of which a handful of words survived as cultural loanwords in Biblical Hebrew, describing specifically Philistine institutions, like the seranim, the "lords" of the Philistine five cities ("pentapolis"),[4] or the 'argáz receptacle, which occurs in 1 Samuel 6 and nowhere else,[5] or the title padî.[6]
- ^ Gitin, Dothan, and Naveh, 1997, p. 15, quote: "If so, one may ask why should a seventh century BCE inscription be written at Ekron in a language close to Phoenician and reminiscent of Old Byblian. Phoenician was the prestige language in the tenth and ninth century BCE. To find an inscription, however, in seventh century BCE Philistia, where a script from the Hebrew tradition was used, is something of an enigma."
- ^ Jaacob Callev, "The Canaanite Dialect of the Dedicatory Royal Inscription from Ekron".
- ^ "Definition of Philistines | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com.
- ^ The term is used as a military rank in contemporary Israel, equivalent to captain.
- ^ E. Sapir, "Hebrew 'argáz, a Philistine Word," Journal of the American Oriental Society (1936:272–281), found it to signify the box of a cart "a presumably non-Semitic word" (p. 274).
- ^ Sapir 1936:279 note 23
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