Extinct Semitic language used in the third millennium BC
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Not to be confused with Elbaite.
Eblaite
Eblaite inscriptions found in Ebla
Region
Ebla
Era
3rd millennium BC[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
East Semitic
Eblaite
Writing system
Cuneiform
Language codes
ISO 639-3
xeb
Linguist List
xeb
Glottolog
ebla1238
Eblaite (/ˈɛblə.aɪt,ˈiːblə-/,[2] also known as Eblan ISO 639-3), or Palaeosyrian,[3][4] is an extinct East Semitic language used during the 3rd millennium BC in Northern Syria.[5] It was named after the ancient city of Ebla, in modern western Syria.[5] Variants of the language were also spoken in Mari and Nagar.[5][6] According to Cyrus H. Gordon,[7] although scribes might have spoken it sometimes, Eblaite was probably not spoken much, being rather a written lingua franca with East and West Semitic features.
The language was discovered through cuneiform tablets found in Ebla.
^ abcBrown, Keith; Ogilvie, Sarah (2010). Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. Elsevier. p. 313. ISBN 978-0-08-087775-4. Archived from the original on 2017-10-18.
Eblaite (/ˈɛblə.aɪt, ˈiːblə-/, also known as Eblan ISO 639-3), or Palaeosyrian, is an extinct East Semitic language used during the 3rd millennium BC...
Afghanistan were recovered from the city's palaces. The kingdom had its own language, Eblaite, and the political organization of Ebla had features different from...
documented Semitic language. It used the cuneiform script, which was a script used to write multiple languages including Sumerian, Eblaite, Hurrian, Elamite...
introduction of the term "Palaeo-Syrian language" as a variant designation for the ancient Eblaitelanguage from the third millennium BC, that is unrelated...
Gary Rendsburg (eds.). Eblaitica: essays on the Ebla archives and Eblaitelanguage. Eisenbrauns. pp. 79–90 (p.88). ISBN 978-0-931464-49-2. Ringgren, Helmer...
H. Winter, eds. (1987). Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and EblaiteLanguage, Volume 1. Eisenbrauns. p. 211. Stephen L. Cook; Jane Morse; Corrine...
king (Malikum) of the first Eblaite kingdom ruling c. 2680 BC. The king's name is translated as "DN has killed". Eblaites practiced the worship of deceased...
as well as in context. Eblaitica: essays on the Ebla archives and Eblaitelanguage, Volume 1. Eisenbrauns. 1987. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-931464-34-8. The only...
and Christopher Woods, 2004 "Akkadian and Eblaite", The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages ISBN 0521562562, p. 218. Brock 1989, p. 11–23...
Semitic languages are one of three divisions of the Semitic languages. The East Semitic group is attested by three distinct languages, Akkadian, Eblaite and...
extinct Amorite and Ugaritic languages). The East Semitic languages, meanwhile, consist of the extinct Eblaite and Akkadian languages. Ethiopic and South Arabian...
the Semitic languages of Canaan, like Ugaritic and Hebrew. Pettinato later retracted the designation and decided to call it simply "Eblaite", the name...
Genesis. Semitic languages occur in written form from a very early historical date in West Asia, with East Semitic Akkadian and Eblaite texts (written in...
Gary Rendsburg (eds.). Eblaitica: essays on the Ebla archives and Eblaitelanguage. Eisenbrauns. pp. 79–90 (p.88). ISBN 978-0-931464-49-2. "JewishEncyclopedia...
believe the language of Ebla to be among the oldest known written Semitic languages after Akkadian. Recent classifications of the Eblaitelanguage have shown...
population was Semitic, and spoke its own East Semitic dialect of the Eblaitelanguage used in Ebla and Mari. The Nagarite dialect is closer to the dialect...
Rendsburg, Gary (eds.). Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and EblaiteLanguage. Vol. 3. Eisenbrauns. ISBN 978-0-931464-77-5. Astour, Michael C. (2002)...
Attestation by major language family: Afro-Asiatic: since about the 27th century BC 27th century BC: Egyptian 24th century BC: Semitic (Eblaite, Akkadian) 7th...
the Ebla Pantheon" [in:] Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and EblaiteLanguage Dupont-Sommer, A. (1960). *Les inscriptions arameennes de Sfire (Steles...
Nathan H. Winter (2002). Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and EblaiteLanguage, Volume 4. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-57506-060-6. Cities of the Ancient Near...
History of Ebla, in " Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and EblaiteLanguage". Eisenbrauns. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-57506-060-6. Archived from the original...
Nathan H. Winter (2002). Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and EblaiteLanguage, Volume 4. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-57506-060-6. Gordon Douglas Young (1981)...
which originated in Mesopotamia and was used to record Sumerian, Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hurrian and Hittite. They are heavily attested in Canaanite inscriptions...
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