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Can you look up the Ugaritic word for "lion" for me? March 22, 2008

Posted by argotnavis in Language.
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I was surprised to find that Wiktionary apparently has categories for Sumerian, Akkadian and Ugaritic. The most interesting links from those pages are the lists of words. There aren't many, and most of them are in character sets I apparently don't have installed, but I thought it was cool that they had them at all. I'm sure there are more I didn't think of looking for. (Ancient Egyptian just popped into my head as I was writing this, and sure enough, they have that, too. Also, the category pages for extinct languages and Canaanite languages both turn up some interesting results.) These obviously aren't much use for trying to learn these languages — the lone Edomite noun probably won't leave you with much to talk about, for example — but it's neat that people are interested in them.

On that subject, the Akkadian language talk page has this link to a University of Pennsylvania site with scans of A.H. Sayce's pithily titled An Elementary Grammar With Full Syllabary and Progressive Reading Book of the Assyrian Language. It was written in 1875, and so does not benefit from the last 133 years of scholarship, but it's still nice that it's available for free online.

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