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An extinct Semitic language of northern Syria
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ugaritic
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Ugaritic is a Unicode block containing cuneiform alphabetic characters for writing the Ugaritic and Hurrian languages of the Ugarit city-state from the 15th-12th centuries BCE. Some of the Unicode character names are reconstructions, and as such are not ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1936, "pertaining to Ugarit," ancient city of northern Syria, and especially to the Semitic language first discovered there 1929 by Claude Schaeffer, from Ugarit , which probably is ultimately from Sumerian ugaru "field."
Usage examples of ugaritic.
Hence, she is also important in Babylonian, Assyrian, Canaanite, Hebrew, and Ugaritic myths, which are all descended from the Sumerian.
Her name in Ugaritic, 'atiratu yammi' means 'she who treads on (the) sea (dragon).