Ugaritic
Extinct Northwest Semitic language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ugaritic[2][3] (/ˌjuːɡəˈrɪtɪk, ˌuː-/[4]) is an extinct Northwest Semitic language, classified by some as a dialect of the Amorite language. It is known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeologists in 1928 at Ugarit,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] including several major literary texts, notably the Baal cycle. It has been used by scholars of the Hebrew Bible to clarify Biblical Hebrew texts and has revealed ways in which the cultures of ancient Israel and Judah found parallels in the neighboring cultures.[11][12]
Ugaritic | |
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Native to | Ugarit |
Extinct | 12th century BC[1] |
Ugaritic alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | uga |
ISO 639-3 | uga |
uga | |
Glottolog | ugar1238 |
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Ugaritic has been called "the greatest literary discovery from antiquity since the deciphering of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform".[13]