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Ugaritic is an inflected language, and its grammatical features are highly similar to those found in Akkadian, Classical Arabic and, to a lesser extent, Biblical Hebrew.
The Ugaritic writing system is a cuneiform abjad (consonantal alphabet) with syllabic elements used from around either 1400 BCE [1] or 1300 BCE [2] for Ugaritic, an extinct Northwest Semitic language. It was discovered in Ugarit, modern Ras Al Shamra, Syria, in 1928. It has 30 letters.
The Ugaritic texts are a corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in 1928 in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) and Ras Ibn Hani in Syria, and written in Ugaritic, an otherwise unknown Northwest Semitic language. Approximately 1,500 texts and fragments have been found to date.
Ugaritic, a Semitic language closely related to Phoenician which was spoken in the city state of Ugarit in northern Syria. Ugarit flourished from the 14th century BC until 1180/70 BC, when it was destroyed.
Ugaritic is an ancient Semitic language that was spoken in the city of Ugarit, modern Ras Shamra (“Cape Fennel”), at the northeastern corner of the Mediterranean, in present-day Syria. The site of Ugarit and its in-digenous language were discovered by accident in 1928–1929.
UGARITIC, a Northwest Semitic language spoken and written in northern Syria during the second millennium B.C.E. Documents written in this tongue have been discovered at Ras Shamra, site of the ancient *Ugarit , and at nearby Ras ibn Hani.
The Ugaritic language and literature were a precursor to Canaanite and serve as our most important resources for understanding the Old Testament and the Hebrew language. Special emphasis is placed on the contextualization of the Ugartic language and comparison to ancient Hebrew as well as Akkadian.
A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of...
Ugaritic is the name applied by modern scholars to the literary, administrative, and vernacular Semitic language of the ancient city of Ugarit on the Mediterranean coast of Syria. This chapter discusses the Ugaritic language with a focus on textual evidence, language contacts, and Ugaritic grammar, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon.
The book under review is an English translation of the authors’ Diccionario de la lengua ugarítica (DLU) and, as such, scarcely needs to be introduced — immediately after the appearance of its first fascicle in 1996, DLU became a widely used standard tool of today’s Ugaritology.