Eblaite
Americannoun
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the Semitic language of the people of Ebla, believed to be closely related to Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Hebrew, but written in cuneiform characters borrowed from Sumerian: decoded from the Ebla Tablets.
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a member of these people.
adjective
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In the hybrid Eblaite language, a single sign can have a dozen meanings.
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Indeed, Alfonso Archi of the University of Rome, now the Ebla epigrapher, accuses both Pettinato and Dahood of distorting Eblaite religion by mistranslations.
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Pettinato writes that in some Eblaite personal names, the syllables ya and el mean "god," and that Ya might have been the proper name of a specific deity.
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Along with some literary documents, Pettinato also discovered a spectacular bonus: bilingual dictionaries, the oldest ever found, matching Eblaite words to Sumerian equivalents �and confirming his readings of the new language.
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Sumerian characters had been used to write an early Western Semitic tongue he dubbed "Eblaite."
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