Ugariticn.adj.

1936 H. L. Ginsberg in Orientalia V. 179 There is excellent reason for believing that Phoenician was almost identical with Ugaritic.

1955 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 21 177 There is a curious knife from Galilee which has a cuneiform inscription on the blade in the Ugaritic of the second half of the second millennium.

1981 Word 1980 31 222 We have here an important isogloss for the chronological division of the Semitic languages into languages with š (Akkadian, Ugaritic, Eblaite,..), languages with h [etc.].

1938 A. Goetze in Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 58 266 The student who approaches the Ugaritic epics.. is startled by the fact that the long narrative passages..are for the most part in the ‘imperfect’ (ygtl).

1951 A. M. Honeyman in H. H. Rowley Old Test. & Mod. Study 279 The precise linguistic affiliation of the Ugaritic tongue was for some time the subject of keen debate, Bauer and Goetze holding that..Ugaritic cannot be classed as a Canaanite dialect.

1963 Listener 31 Jan. 213/2 In northern Syria the thirty-letter Ugaritic cuneiform alphabet was already a precise instrument for recording phonetically several quite distinct tongues.

1973 A. R. Millard in D. J. Wiseman Peoples Old Testament Times ii. 47 The tremendous impetus given to Hebrew studies by the recovery of the Ugaritic texts.