Ugaritic

The language of the Late Bronze Age city-state of Ugarit on the northern Syrian coast, attested in cuneiform tablets recovered from the site of Ras Shamra. Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic language closely related to the Canaanite languages and to Phoenician, and the corpus of Ugaritic texts includes administrative records, diplomatic correspondence, legal documents, and a substantial body of mythological poetry centered on the deities of the West Semitic pantheon.

Ugaritic was written in a distinctive cuneiform alphabet of roughly thirty signs, a system unique among the cuneiform scripts of the ancient Near East in being alphabetic rather than logosyllabic. The script and the city that produced it both ended abruptly around 1190 BCE, when Ugarit was destroyed during the Late Bronze Age collapse and never resettled.

@misc{onomastikon-ugaritic,
  author = {Rajagopal, Shriram},
  title = {Ugaritic},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://onomastikon.org/languages/ugaritic}},
  note = {Onomastikon: A Digital Atlas of Ancient Names}
}