The oldest cuneiform alphabet in the world is called Ugarit or Ugarit
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Archaeological finds and linguistic studies document that the Ugarit alphabet or “Ugarit” is the oldest cuneiform alphabetic writing system in the world.
The written documents discovered in Ugarit testified that there were eight languages spoken in its kingdom. Therefore, it deserved to receive the International Linguistic Medal.
These languages, as they were called by ancient linguists, were:
Ugaritic - Akkadian - Hurrian - Hittite - Luvian - Egyptian - Cypriot - Sumerian -
As for the most important language that the inhabitants of Ugarit used to speak, it was the Ugaritic language. This language was deciphered after a great effort by scholars and linguists, and its alphabetical character was made clear, consisting of thirty signs that included consecutive words that rarely exceeded four letters, separated from each other by a vertical separator.
The inscriptions discovered at the archaeological sites of Ras Shamra and Ras Ibn Hani confirm the existence of schools teaching reading and writing in many languages, such as:
• Sumerian • Akkadian with its Middle Babylonian branch • and Cypriot-Minoan
• Hittite cuneiform • and Hurrian cuneiform
As well as preparing translators.
The king, the princes, and the rest of the ruling family had learned to read and write in the Ugaritic language, which remained a local language spoken only in the Kingdom of Ugarit.
At the beginning of the thirteenth century BC, the Syrians created a cuneiform writing system that was much easier to learn and use than the Sumerian and Akkadian syllabic with its Babylonian and Assyrian branches. It is the Ugaritic cuneiform alphabet writing system, which is the oldest cuneiform alphabetic writing system in the world with an integrated grammatical system.
The cuneiform writing system consisted of 30 alphabetical signs or cuneiform symbols, 27 of which were consonant and the remaining three symbols were phonetic.
In 1939 AD, confirmation came of the validity of these studies and symbols, especially the arrangement of an alphabet consisting of thirty letters, which has the same arrangement of the letters that were used in Ugarit...that is, the arrangement that constitutes the total arrangement of the subsequent ancient international alphabet, which includes twenty-two letters, such as the Phoenician and Aramaic. Where the dental letters disappeared / the letters that are pronounced by placing the tip of the tongue on the back of the upper front teeth / and the uvula letters * in relation to the uvula / included from one place to another in the Ugaritic alphabet..
The history of this alphabet dates back to the fourteenth century BC. It was spread to the ancient world by the inhabitants of our beautiful Syrian coast, the inhabitants of Ugarit, in the middle of the second millennium BC.
The Ugarit alphabet formed the basic basis for the creation and emergence of the Phoenician alphabet, which was created in 1000 BC, the Aramaic alphabet, and other alphabets that were derived from Phoenician and Aramaic.
Such as Hebrew - Moabite - Ammonite - Greek - Nabataean - Palmyra - Syriac - South Arabic - Safaic - and Northern Arabic.
From a documented linguistic point of view, the name of the alphabet is “Ugarit” and not Ugarit, as the general public, some researchers in the field of language and archaeology, and a number of media outlets, books, and published research say.
As all pottery figures that refer to or mention the name of the kingdom were in the following form or “G” R” T” and not “G” R” T”
In addition to the presence of a large difference in shape between the letter “jim” and the letter “ghin,” the word Ugar means “field,” while the word Ugar has no meaning in the Ugaritic language dictionary. Therefore, the old name Ugarit must be corrected and replaced with the word Ugarit.
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