Alphabetic Cuneiform was used more than 3000 years ago at Ugarit, a city in Syria. This was one of the first places to use an alphabet. The script was mainly used for the Ugaritic language.
- Alphabetic Cuneiform only writes a, i, or u except sometimes. E is written with I and O is written with U.
- It always reads from left to right
- Signs are written by pressing a stylus into soft clay to make the wedge-shapes.
Say your name aloud. Choose the signs that sound like the sounds in your name. Press them into the clay using a chopstick.
there are 2 kinds of wedge:
t – make these using the edge of your stylus
o – make these using the corner of your stylus
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a |
A as in ‘hat’ |
y |
Y as in ‘yes’ |
p |
P as in ‘put’ |
|
b |
B as in ‘boat’ |
k |
K as in ‘kick’ |
3 |
TS as in ‘hits’ |
|
g |
G as in ‘girl’ |
e |
SH as in ‘ship’ |
q |
K pronounced at back of mouth |
|
x |
KH as in ‘loch’ |
l |
L as in ‘leg’ |
r |
R as in ‘run’ |
|
d |
D as in ‘duck’ |
m |
M as in ‘man’ |
4 |
TH as in ‘thin’ |
|
h |
H as in ‘hat’ |
j |
TH as in ‘the’ |
2 |
A bit like an R at the back of the mouth, as in French ‘Roi’ |
|
w |
W as in ‘win’ |
n |
N as in ‘nine’ |
t |
T as in ‘ten’ |
|
z |
Z as in ‘zoo’ |
f |
Z as in ‘treasure’ |
i |
I as in ‘in’ |
|
c |
breathy ‘H’ |
s |
S as in ‘see’ |
u |
U as in ‘up’ |
|
v |
T as in ‘tut’ |
o |
A bit like GH at the back of the throat, almost like the sound of being sick! |
1 |
We don’t know! Some kind of S. Only used for foreign names. |
‘My name is Athirat’: a4rt