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The Ugaritic alphabet is a cuneiform consonant alphabet ( abjad), used from around 1300 BC for the Ugaritic language, an extinct Canaanite language discovered in Ugarit. It has 30 distinct letters. Other languages (particularly Hurrian) were occasionally written in it in the Ugarit area, although not elsewhere.

Clay tablets written in Ugaritic are the earliest known evidence of th semitic ordering of letters that eventually gave the order of letters in the Greek and Latin alphabets.

In Unicode, the Ugaritic alphabet is assigned to 10380-1039F.

10380 𐎀 ʾa Alpa
10381 𐎁 b Beta
10382 𐎂 g Gamla
10383 𐎃 ẖ Kha
10384 𐎄 d Delta
10385 𐎅 h Ho
10386 𐎆 w Wo
10387 𐎇 z Zeta
10388 𐎈 ḥ Hota
10389 𐎉 ṭ Tet
1038A 𐎊 y Yod
1038B 𐎋 k Kaf
1038C 𐎌 š Shin
1038D 𐎍 l Lamda
1038E 𐎎 m Mem
1039F 𐎟 ḏ Dhal
10390 𐎐 n Nun
10391 𐎑 ẓ Zu
10392 𐎒 s Samka
10393 𐎓 ʿ Ain
10394 𐎔 p Pu
10395 𐎕 ṣ Sade
10396 𐎖 q Qopa
10397 𐎗 r Rasha
10398 𐎘 ṯ Thanna
10399 𐎙 g Ghain
1039A 𐎚 t To
1039B 𐎛 ʾi I
1039C 𐎜 ʾu U
1039D 𐎝 s₂ Su
1039E 𐎞 (unassigned)
1039F 𐎟 word divider

External link

• Ugaritic (ancientscripts.com)
• Ugaritic Cuneiform characters from the Unicode Ugaritic cuneiform script.
• Ugaritic cuneiform Omniglot entry on the subject.