Northwest Semitic inscriptions
The Northwest Semitic inscriptions are the primary source for understanding of the society and history of the Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples. Semitic inscriptions may occur on stone slabs, pottery ostraca, ornaments, and range from simple names to full texts.
The Northwest Semitic inscriptions are the primary source for understanding of the society and history of the Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples. Semitic inscriptions may occur on stone slabs, pottery ostraca, ornaments, and range from simple names to full texts. Only 10,000 Phoenician-Punic inscriptions are known, such that "Phoenician probably remains the worst transmitted and least known of all Semitic languages." Within this corpus only 668 words have been attested, including 321 hapax legomena (words only attested a single time), per Wolfgang Röllig's analysis in 1983. This compares to the Bible's 7000-8000 words and 1500 hapax legomena, in Biblical Hebrew.

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The prime minister of the Republic of Singapore is the head of the government of the Republic of Singapore and the country's most powerful political figure. The president of Singapore appoints as Prime Minister a member of Parliament (MP) who, in his or her opinion, is most likely to command the confidence of a majority of MPs. In practice, the prime minister is usually the leader of the majority party in the legislature. Nonetheless, the prime minister of Singapore remains the highest-paid political leader in the world.