| Quick Facts |
| Type |
Consonantal Alphabetic |
| Genealogy |
Cuneiform |
| Location |
West Asia |
| Time |
1300 BCE to 800 BCE |
| Direction |
Left to Right |
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The Ugaritic script was really one of a kind, for it was a cuneiform
alphabet (old Persian really was closer to a syllabary). Clay tablets
written in Ugaritic provided the first evidence of the "modern" ordering
of letters, which in Ugaritic went like 'a, b, g,
and so on, that eventually gave the order of letters in the Greek and
Roman abecedaries.
This writing system was employed in the city of Ugarit, located in
western Syria from around 1300 BCE. It later was supplanted by the
West Semitic, Proto-Sinaitic-descended scripts.
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