what is the language the ancient carthaginians used and an example of their writtten language?
The Carthaginians were Phoenicians; they spoke a descendent of Phoenician, a Semitic language, called Punic (which is a latin word derived from Phoenician, which is derived from the Greek word for purple. The Carthaginians, and the Phoenicians, didn’t call themselves that.) Punic exists today only in scattered inscriptions, a few mentions in texts in other languages, and in words borrowed by other cultures. Of course, the phoenician alphabet survives, in altered form, in the modern alphabets used by most western cultures today: The Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Cyrillic alphabets all trace their roots to the Phoenician.
