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| Keywords: Ugaritic-alphabet-chart-Arabic.svg أبجدية أوغاريتية A table of the letters of the ancient Ugaritic cuneiform alphabet; under each Ugaritic letter is the letter of the Arabic alphabet which most closely corresponds to it The rows read from right to left Note that the modern pronunciation of the Arabic letter is not always exactly the same as the probable ancient pronunciation of the Ugaritic letter particularly in the case of Ugaritic g and Arabic <big>ج</big> only valid in Egyptian dialect and Ugaritic p and Arabic <big>ف</big> Also it is not known exactly how the Ugaritic emphatic sounds ṭ ṣ ẓ q ط ص ظ ق were distinguished in pronunciation from the corresponding non-emphatic sounds t s θ k ت س ث ك and the phonetic basis of emphasis contrasts in ancient Ugaritic could have been different from the phonetic basis of emphasis contrasts in modern Arabic The vertical red line in the last row of the table divides the basic 27 Ugaritic letters presumably adapted from an early non-Cuneiform alphabet from the last three letters which seem to have been added within Ugaritic originally to transcribe foreign words or languages The only punctuation was a word divider a short vertical stroke not shown in the table This is a self-made graphic based on fonts and publicly-available information declared to be in the public domain Ugaritic-alphabet-chart svg 2012-03 AnonMoos For a version of this table with Latin-alphabet transcriptions see File Ugaritic-alphabet-chart svg For a chart with somewhat different letter-shapes since based on a more tapering wedge and including the word-divider see File Ugaritic script sample svg 350px center Ugaritic letters Alphabet charts Tables with Arabic script typeset in SVG | ||||
