Ugaritic
pronunciation
How to pronounce Ugaritic in British English:
UK [ˌju:ɡəˈritik,ˈu:-]
How to pronounce Ugaritic in American English:
US [ˌuɡəˈrɪtɪk, ˌju-]
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- Noun:
- an extinct Semitic language of northern Syria
Word Origin
- Ugaritic
- 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."
Example
- 1. This noun has cognates in ugaritic , aramaic , and arabic .
- 2. At the same time as the short-lived ugaritic script was being developed ( an alphabet adapted from cuneiform ) , another alphabetic system emerged that was influenced by egyptian hieroglyphs .