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Eblaite

Eblaite was an Afro-Asiatic language once spoken in Syria.

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Eblaite (, also known as Eblan by ISO 639-3), or Palaeosyrian, is an extinct East Semitic language used during the 3rd millennium BC in Northern Syria. It was named after the ancient city of Ebla, in modern western Syria. Variants of the language were also spoken in Mari and Nagar. According to Cyrus H. Gordon, 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.

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Words in Eblaite

MeaningWordRomanization
eye𒀀𒈾𒈾anana
heart𒇷𒅤li-bù

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