Ugaritic alphabet
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[{{localurl:{ History of the Alphabet
Wadi el-Hol 19th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC *Phoenician 11th c. BC **Hebrew 9th c. BC **Aramaic 9th c. BC ***Brahmi 3rd c. BC ****Devanagari 12th c. ****Thai 13th c. ***Syriac 2nd c. BC ***Arabic 4th c. **Greek 9th c. BC ***Coptic 4th c. ***Gothic 4th c. ***Glagolitic 862 ***Cyrillic 10th c. **Old Italic 8th c. BC ***Latin 7th c. BC ***Runes 2nd c. *South Arabian 9th c. BC Georgian 5th c. BC Armenian 405 Orkhon 6th c. Ogham 6th c. Hangul 1446
Clay tablets written in Ugaritic provide the earliest evidence of both the Levantine and South Semitic orders of the alphabet, that gave rise to the alphabetic orders of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin alphabets on the one hand, and of the Ethiopic alphabet on the other.
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2 Abecedaries 3 Ugaritic in Unicode 4 External link 5 Special characters |
Letters
𐎀 ʾa Alpa𐎁 b Beta
𐎂 g Gamla
𐎃 ẖ Kha
𐎄 d Delta
𐎅 h Ho
𐎆 w Wo
𐎇 z Zeta
𐎈 ḥ Hota
𐎉 ṭ Tet
𐎊 y Yod
𐎋 k Kaf
𐎌 š Shin
𐎍 l Lamda
𐎎 m Mem
𐎟 ḏ Dhal
𐎐 n Nun
𐎑 ẓ Zu
𐎒 s Samka
𐎓 ʿ Ain
𐎔 p Pu
𐎕 ṣ Sade
𐎖 q Qopa
𐎗 r Rasha
𐎘 ṯ Thanna
𐎙 ġ Ghain
𐎚 t To
𐎛 ʾi I
𐎜 ʾu U
𐎝 s2 Su
(unassigned)
𐎟 word divider
Abecedaries
rangeUgaritic is found in two alphabetic orders, the Northern Semitic order found in the Hebrew, Greek, and Roman scripts, and the Southern Semitic order found in the Ethiopic scripts. The letters are given in transcription and in their Hebrew cognates; letters missing from Hebrew are left blank.
North Semitic (the abjad)
| ’a | b | g | x | d | h | w | z | ħ | ţ | y | k | š | l | m | ð | n | ẓ | s | c | p | ş | q | r | θ | γ | t | ’i | ’u | ś |
| א | ב | ג | ד | ה | ו | ז | ח | ט | י | כ | ל | מ | נ | ס | ע | פ | צ | ק | ר | ש | ת |
South Semitic
| h | l | ħ | m | q | w | š | r | t | s | k | n | x | b | ś | p | ’ | c | ẓ | g | d | γ | ţ | z | ð | y | θ | ş |
| ה | ל | ח | מ | ק | ו | ר | ת | ס | כ | נ | ב | פ | א | ע | ג | ד | ט | ז | י | ש | צ |
Ugaritic in Unicode
In Unicode, the Ugaritic alphabet is assigned to U+10380 - U+1039F.
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | ||
| 1038 | 𐎀 | 𐎁 | 𐎂 | 𐎃 | 𐎄 | 𐎅 | 𐎆 | 𐎇 | 𐎈 | 𐎉 | 𐎊 | 𐎋 | 𐎌 | 𐎍 | 𐎎 | 𐎟 | |
| 1039 | 𐎐 | 𐎑 | 𐎒 | 𐎓 | 𐎔 | 𐎕 | 𐎖 | 𐎗 | 𐎘 | 𐎙 | 𐎚 | 𐎛 | 𐎜 | 𐎝 | 𐎟 |
External link
- Ugaritic (ancientscripts.com)
- Ugaritic Cuneiform characters from the Unicode Ugaritic cuneiform script.
- Ugaritic cuneiform Omniglot entry on the subject.
Special characters
