Ugaritic

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Ugaritic was a Semitic language spoken in the town of Ugarit, located on the coast of modern Syria. Cuneiform texts written in Ugaritic dating from approximately 1200-1000 B.C. were discovered by French archaeologists in the early twentieth century.

Like other Semitic languages, including Hebrew, Akkadian and Sumerian, Ugaritic had an object-verb-subject word order. Its verbal morphology was most similar to Aramaic, although Hittite and even Egyptian influence is seen in its inflectional morphology. It is believed that the maximum number of current speakers of the language is no more 5 million and rapidly falling. Ergativity is also a notable feature of the language.

Texts in the Ugaritic language include the legends of Baal, Aqhat (which is believed to refer to a character later known in the Bible as Daniel, and Kirta.