Ugaritic alphabet

The Ugaritic script was in use until its demise around 1200 BC, since about 1500 BC in the city-state of Ugarit.

Written in her Ugaritic language is grouped with the Aramaic and Hebrew to the northwestern group of the Semitic languages.

The Ugaritic script is a cuneiform script, but has the structure of a northern Semitic consonantal script, such as the Phoenician script, the Samaritan script, the Aramaic script or the Hebrew Scriptures.

Development environment of the Ugaritic script

It is believed that the first phonetic, so onomatopoetic proto Semitic script developed around 1700 BC in Egypt by or for workers Semitic or Semitic slaves. However, there are only a few of these writings have been deciphered and their exact meaning remains the core of more detailed interpretations. As the reconstructed Proto -Semitic script developed under the influence of a known writing system, the Egyptian hieroglyphics, and borrowed characters for letters of the Semitic sound system, it can be assumed according to the origin of the Ugaritic writing in the influence of the cuneiform inscriptions of the region.

The Ugaritic Script

The following table shows the signs of the Ugaritic script and their alphabet ordering.

The following tables show the signs of the Ugaritic script and their correspondence with the Hebrew alphabet.

There were eight additional characters that have no Hebrew equivalent and partially inserted between the other characters were partially placed at the end of the series: