书写,希腊字母便是以腓尼基字母改造而来。 现存语言中与腓尼基语最接近的语言为希伯来语。 Krahmalkov, Charles R., A Phoenician-Punic Grammar, Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1 54, Leiden, Boston
claims of a Phoenician heritage are not unfounded (p. 55), because the ethnic makeup of the Maronites is a mixture of Mardaite, Greco-Phoenician, Aramean