Ugaritic language

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The Ugaritic language is a Semitic from the 14th to 13th century BC traditional language.

The Ugaritic language was known only through inscriptions with mythological poems, which were discovered in 1928 in Ugarit in Syria today. Meanwhile, however, numerous letters, lists and other inscriptions have been found and cataloged. Were Ugaritic is for the study of the Old Testament is of enormous importance as the basis of these texts not only confusion were evident in the Hebrew texts, but also a deeper understanding was acquired, such as standardized phrases, literary idioms and expressions taken from the cultures surrounding Judaism.

Ugaritic was the most important literary discovery from antiquity since the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform. The literary texts that have been found at Ugarit, provide insights into the Ugaritic mythology, such as the " Legend of Keret ", the " Aqhat epic" (aka " Legend of Danel " ), the "myth of Baal - Aliyan "and" The Death of Baal. "

Ugaritic was a Semitic language that was written in the Ugaritic script, an alphabetic cuneiform from 30 (long alphabet), and 22 (short alphabet) different letters, and not, as usual, until then, in a syllabary. Ugaritic texts are attested from the 14th century BC to the destruction of the City 1180/70 BC. Thus Ugaritic was written in one of the oldest known alphabets.

Ugaritic language was a Canaanite culture and is closely related to the other Canaanite languages ​​, even if it ō because of the failure to perform Canaanite sound change of ā > is not counted to the Canaanite languages ​​in the strict sense. Ugaritic but is considered as a close relative of simultaneously existing proto-language, descended from the languages ​​referred to as ' Canaanite ' or ' Canaanite '.