Ugaritic language
E173716
The Ugaritic language is an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken in the ancient city of Ugarit on the Syrian coast, known primarily from cuneiform texts dating to the Late Bronze Age.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ugaritic | 13 |
| Ugaritic language canonical | 4 |
| Ugaritic texts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1515520 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Ugaritic language Context triple: [Ugaritic alphabet, usedFor, Ugaritic language]
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A.
Phoenician language
The Phoenician language was an ancient Northwest Semitic tongue, written in a consonantal alphabet that became the ancestor of many later writing systems, including Greek and Latin scripts.
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B.
Cuneiform Luwian
Cuneiform Luwian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language once spoken in ancient Anatolia and written using a modified form of Mesopotamian cuneiform script.
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C.
Akkadian
Akkadian is an extinct Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, historically used in Assyria and Babylonia and written in cuneiform script.
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D.
Ugaritic alphabet
The Ugaritic alphabet is an ancient cuneiform script used in the city of Ugarit to write the Ugaritic language, notable as one of the earliest known alphabetic writing systems.
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E.
Aramaic
Aramaic is an ancient Semitic language historically spoken in the Near East, notable as a lingua franca of empires and as the everyday language of parts of the biblical and early Christian world.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Ugaritic language Target entity description: The Ugaritic language is an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken in the ancient city of Ugarit on the Syrian coast, known primarily from cuneiform texts dating to the Late Bronze Age.
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A.
Phoenician language
The Phoenician language was an ancient Northwest Semitic tongue, written in a consonantal alphabet that became the ancestor of many later writing systems, including Greek and Latin scripts.
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B.
Cuneiform Luwian
Cuneiform Luwian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language once spoken in ancient Anatolia and written using a modified form of Mesopotamian cuneiform script.
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C.
Akkadian
Akkadian is an extinct Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, historically used in Assyria and Babylonia and written in cuneiform script.
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D.
Ugaritic alphabet
The Ugaritic alphabet is an ancient cuneiform script used in the city of Ugarit to write the Ugaritic language, notable as one of the earliest known alphabetic writing systems.
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E.
Aramaic
Aramaic is an ancient Semitic language historically spoken in the Near East, notable as a lingua franca of empires and as the everyday language of parts of the biblical and early Christian world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Northwest Semitic language
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ancient language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ |
| archaeologicalSite |
Ugarit
ⓘ
surface form:
Ras Shamra
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Amorite language
ⓘ
Aramaic language ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew language
Phoenician language ⓘ |
| country | Syria ⓘ |
| discoveredAt |
Ugarit
ⓘ
surface form:
Ras Shamra
|
| era | Late Bronze Age ⓘ |
| extinctionPeriod | around 12th century BCE ⓘ |
| firstMajorDiscoveryYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| hasVowelNotation | no ⓘ |
| importantFor |
biblical studies
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comparative Semitic linguistics ⓘ history of Canaanite religion ⓘ study of Northwest Semitic languages ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | uga ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Northwest Semitic ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Afroasiatic languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Afroasiatic
Semitic ⓘ |
| notableText |
Ugaritic Baal Cycle
ⓘ
surface form:
Aqhat epic
Ugaritic Baal Cycle ⓘ
surface form:
Baal Cycle
Keret epic ⓘ |
| numberOfSignsInAlphabet | 30 ⓘ |
| phonologicalType | consonantal alphabet ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Ugarit ⓘ |
| primarySources |
administrative texts
ⓘ
cuneiform tablets ⓘ legal texts ⓘ letters ⓘ literary texts ⓘ mythological texts ⓘ ritual texts ⓘ |
| region |
Levant region
ⓘ
surface form:
Levant
|
| scriptType | alphabetic cuneiform ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Syrian coast
ⓘ
Ugarit ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Afroasiatic language
ⓘ
Semitic language ⓘ |
| timePeriod | circa 14th century BCE to 12th century BCE ⓘ |
| usedAlongside |
Akkadian
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surface form:
Akkadian language
|
| usedFor |
diplomatic correspondence
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religious literature ⓘ royal administration ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Ugaritic alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Ugaritic cuneiform
|
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Ugaritic language Description of subject: The Ugaritic language is an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken in the ancient city of Ugarit on the Syrian coast, known primarily from cuneiform texts dating to the Late Bronze Age.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.