The definite article, so constantly recurring in Hebrew, is in Phoenician, comparatively speaking, rare.

The quiescent letters, which in Hebrew ordinarily accompany the long vowels, are in Phoenician for the most part absent.

The employment of the participle for the definite tenses of the verb is much more common in Phoenician than in Hebrew, and the Hebrew prefix _m_ is wanting.

The ordinary termination of feminine singular nouns is _-th_, not _-h_.

Peculiar forms occur, as _ash_ for _asher_, _'amath_ for _'am_ ("people"), _zan_ for _zah_ ("this"), &c.