<P> These enclitic forms vary between the dialects . In the archaic Byblian dialect, the third person forms are h and w / - ō / for the maculine singular (a.V. w / - ēw /), h / - aha (ː) / for the feminine singular and hm / - hum (ma) / for the masculine plural . In late Punic, the 3rd masculine singular is usually / - im / m . </P> <P> The same enclitic pronouns are also attached to verbs to denote direct objects . In that function some of them have slightly divergent forms: first singular / - nī / n and probably first plural / - nu (ː) / . </P> <P> The near demonstrative pronouns ("this") are written, in standard Phoenician, z for the singular and ʼl for the plural . Cypriot Phoenician displays ʼz instead of z . Byblian still distinguishes, in the singular, a masculine zn / z from a feminine zt / zʼ . There are also many variations in Punic, including st and zt for both genders in the singular . The far demonstrative pronouns ("that") are identical to the independent third person pronouns . The interrogative pronouns are / miya / or perhaps / mi / my "who" and / mū / m "what". An indefinite pronoun "anything" is written mnm . The relative pronoun is a š, either followed or preceded by a vowel . </P> <P> The definite article was / ha - / and the first consonant of the following word was doubled . It was written h, but in late Punic also ʼ and ʻ, due to the weakening and coalescence of the gutturals . Much as in Biblical Hebrew, the initial consonant of the article is dropped after the prepositions b -, l - and k; it could also be lost after various other particles and function words such the direct object marker ʼyt and the conjunction w - "and". </P>

Written type of language developed by the phoenicians