Extinct Northwest Semitic language
Ugaritic [ 2] [ 3] ([ 4] ) is an extinct Northwest Semitic language 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]
Ugaritic has been called "the greatest literary discovery from antiquity since the deciphering of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform ".[ 13]
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^ Ugaritic is alternatively classified in a "North Semitic" group, see Lipiński, Edward (2001). Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar . Peeters Publishers. p. 50. ISBN 978-90-429-0815-4 .
^ Woodard, Roger D. (2008-04-10). The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia . Cambridge University Press. p. 5. ISBN 9781139469340 .
^ Goetze, Albrecht (1941). "Is Ugaritic a Canaanite Dialect?". Language . 17 (2): 127–138. doi :10.2307/409619 . JSTOR 409619 .
^ Kaye, Alan S. (2007-06-30). Morphologies of Asia and Africa . Eisenbrauns. p. 49. ISBN 9781575061092 .
^ Schniedewind, William ; Hunt, Joel H. (2007). A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature . Cambridge University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-139-46698-1 .
^ a b Greenstein, Edward L. (November 2010). "Texts from Ugarit Solve Biblical Puzzles" . Biblical Archaeology Review . 36 (6): 48–53, 70. Retrieved 16 July 2019 .
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