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Philistine | |
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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/)[1] 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"),[2] or the 'argáz receptacle, which occurs in 1 Samuel 6 and nowhere else,[3] or the title padî.[4]