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The ancient city-state of Ugarit, located on the coast of Syria, used several languages, including Ugaritic, Akkadian, Sumerian, and Hurrian. The Ugarit people wrote these languages using seven different scripts, including their own cuneiform alphabet, Babylonian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphic, Hittite hieroglyphic, Cypro-Minoan, Sumerian, and Akkadian.
Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic language that's similar to ancient Hebrew and was spoken in Ugarit during the Late Bronze Age (14th–13th centuries BCE). The language is only known from texts written on clay tablets, including myths, epics, ritual texts, letters, accounting records, and contracts.
The Ugaritic alphabet was a unique adaptation of the Mesopotamian writing system, which was originally syllabic and logographic and used hundreds of symbols. The Ugaritic alphabet had 27 basic consonants, and some letters look similar to Greek letters. For example, 𐎅 h resembles the Greek letter E, and 𐎆 w, 𐎔 p, and 𐎘 θ look like Greek Y, Π, and Σ turned on their side.
The excavations of Ugarit have provided important collections of cuneiform tablets that have helped us understand Canaanite culture and worship, and some words in ancient Hebrew that are difficult to translate.