What happened to the Phoenician language during the Roman period?

During the period of the Roman Empire, the native Phoenician language gradually died out in Lebanon. As it declined, it was replaced by Aramaic as the primary vernacular language of the region.12

While Phoenician had already begun to be superseded by Aramaic as early as the 1st century BCE, the transition continued throughout the Roman era. By the 5th century CE, the linguistic landscape of the eastern Mediterranean had shifted further, with Greek becoming the dominant language of letters, eventually displacing Latin, which had been used primarily by Roman soldiers and administrators.312