Ugaritic
Not to be confused with the unrelated Ugric languages. Ugaritic Native to Ugarit Extinct twelfth century BC Language family Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Amoritic Ugaritic Writing system Ugaritic alphabet Language codes ISO 639-2 uga ISO 639-3 uga Glottolog ugar1238 [1] This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For a guide to IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Ugaritic [2] ( / ˌ uː ɡ ə ˈ r ɪ t ɪ k , ˌ j uː -/ ) is an extinct Amorite language known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeologists in 1929. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] It is known almost only in the Ugarit texts found in the ruined city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra, Syria). [8] [9] It has been used by scholars of the Hebrew Bible to clarify Biblical Hebrew texts and has revealed ways in which the cultures of ancien...