Eblaite

[ eb-luh-ahyt, ee-bluh- ]

noun

1. 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. Compare Ebla.
2. a member of these people.

adjective

1. Also Eb·lan [] of or relating to Ebla, its people, or their language.

Example Sentences

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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