Ugaritic
| Ugaritic | |
|---|---|
Clay tablet of Ugaritic alphabet | |
| Native to | Ugarit |
| Extinct | 12th century BC |
| Ugaritic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | uga |
| ISO 639-3 | uga |
uga | |
| Glottolog | ugar1238 |
Ugaritic (/ˌjuːɡəˈrɪtɪk, ˌuː-/) is an extinct Northwest Semitic language known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeologists in 1928 at Ugarit, including several major literary texts, notably the Baal cycle.
Ugaritic has been called "the greatest literary discovery from antiquity since the deciphering of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform".