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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"Eblaite" is a Semitic tongue written in cuneiform characters borrowed from Mesopotamia.
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The reigning cuneiform expert at the University of Chicago, Ignace J. Gelb, who classifies the Eblaite tongue as most akin to the Mesopotamian languages of Old Akkadian and Amorite, and thus distant from Hebrew, believes that the discoveries at Ebla add "nothing directly to biblical scholarship."
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He contends that Eblaite is more directly tied to Hebrew than to Ugaritic, although Ebla was closer to Ugarit in both geography and chronology.
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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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In the hybrid Eblaite language, a single sign can have a dozen meanings.
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