01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Ugaritic
Cuneiform alphabet of the city-state of Ugarit, discovered at Ras Shamra, Syria in 1929.
Cuneiform alphabet of the city-state of Ugarit, discovered at Ras Shamra, Syria in 1929. Used around 1400–1200 BC with 30 consonantal signs. The Baal Cycle epic found on Ugaritic tablets directly parallels Psalms in the Hebrew Bible, revolutionizing biblical scholarship. The world's oldest known alphabet order list (the prototype of the ABC sequence) was discovered at Ugarit.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
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Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Written left to right.
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System
Abjad
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Input method
Direct Unicode input
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
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Ancestors & descendants
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08REACH