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Ugaritic

Translation
Ugaritic
/ooh'geuh rit"ik, yooh'-/, adj.
1. of or pertaining to Ugarit, its people, or their language.
n.
2. Also, Ugaritian /ooh'geuh rish"euhn, yooh'-/. the Semitic language of the Ugaritic people, related to Hebrew and Phoenician and written in a cuneiform alphabet having 30 characters.
[1935-40; UGARIT + -IC]

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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