Punic

extinct dialect of the Phoenician language spoken in North Africa and the Western Mediterranean
Language dialect Q535958
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Punic

Summary

Punic is a dialect[1]. Punic ranks in the top 0.7% of dialect entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (843 views/month, #6 of 862).[2]

Key Facts

  • Punic is in the country of Ancient Carthage[3].
  • Punic is in the country of Ancient Rome[4].
  • Punic's instance of is recorded as dialect[5].
  • Punic's instance of is recorded as ancient language[6].
  • Punic's ISO 639-3 code is recorded as xpu[7].
  • Punic's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85109110[8].
  • Punic's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12286549m[9].
  • Punic's subclass of is recorded as Phoenician[10].
  • Punic's writing system is recorded as Phoenician script[11].
  • Punic's IETF language tag is recorded as xpu[12].
  • Punic's Wikimedia language code is recorded as xpu[13].
  • Punic's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 145[14].
  • -0800-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Punic[15].
  • Punic was dissolved in +0600-00-00T00:00:00Z[16].
  • Punic's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02p2j8t[17].
  • Punic's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph330283[18].
  • Punic's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Punic language[19].
  • Punic's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300262964[20].
  • Punic's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 492.6[21].
  • Punic's Glottolog code is recorded as puni1241[22].
  • Punic's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Punic-language[23].
  • Punic's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'xpu', 'text': '𐤃𐤁𐤓𐤉𐤌 𐤐𐤍𐤉𐤌'}[24].
  • Punic's distribution map is recorded as Idioma púnico.png[25].
  • Punic's UNESCO language status is recorded as 6 extinct[26].
  • Punic's time period is recorded as Roman Empire[27].

Why It Matters

Punic ranks in the top 0.7% of dialect entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (843 views/month, #6 of 862).[2] Punic has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Punic is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Wikidata Toolkit. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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