Ugaritic Transcription

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Posted by James Cuénod on January 9, 2018

Once again, a post just to document the transliterations so that it’s not a nightmare to find “Modifier letter right half ring” or something silly.

Here’s a table of transliterations and the respective unicode characters. You may need to install a font with support for the Ugaritic glyphs if the left hand column doesn’t show the symbols.

Cuneiform Transliteration Hebrew Approximation
𐎀 ʾa א
𐎁 b ב
𐎂 g ג
𐎃 ח
𐎄 d ד
𐎅 h ה
𐎆 w ו
𐎇 z ז
𐎈 ח
𐎉 ט
𐎊 y י
𐎋 k כ
𐎌 š ש
𐎍 l ל
𐎎 m מ
𐎏 ז
𐎐 n נ
𐎑 צ
𐎒 s ס
𐎓 ʿ ע
𐎔 p פ
𐎕 צ
𐎖 q ק
𐎗 r ר
𐎘
𐎙 ǵ ע or צ
𐎚 t ת
𐎛 ʾi א
𐎜 ʾu א
𐎝 ס
𐎟 .