Ugaritic texts from the 14th century BC to the destruction of the city 1180/1170 BC are testifies. Thus, Ugaritic was written in one of the oldest known alphabets. The alphabet is based on the Proto-Sinaitic (Old-Aarabic / Proto-Semitic) alphabet from the 17th century BC and was writen in cuneiform adopted from Mesopotamia.
Among other things, the app contains the following functions:
- Overview of the alphabet
- Detailed information on the letters including examples in Ugaritic, Arabic and German/English.
- A small dictionary with over 270 items.
- Quiz in various forms to practice the learned letters (e.g., Latin-Ugaritic, Ugaritic-Latin, Ugaritic-sign-name.
- Editor with different keyboards to write Ugaritic. The text can be copied and used in other applications.
- Some brief information about the language, religion, city and alphabet.
- A list of over 60 words.
- Language selection: Z.Z. German, English and Arabic
- Learning statistics can be viewed and reset.
The number of words in the small dictionary has been increased to about 360.
Dictionary can be sorted in different ways.
Some improvements and functionality have been introduced.