Ugaritic
Extinct Northwest Semitic language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the ancient language. For the branch of the Uralic language family, see Ugric languages.
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. [11][12]
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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]