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Basics of Ancient Ugaritic: A Concise Grammar, Workbook, and Lexicon is unavailable, but you can change that!

Basics of Ancient Ugaritic is a teaching grammar of this ancient language, one spoken at the time of Abraham occurring in ancient texts in cuneiform writing. Beginning with the alphabet, each new lesson builds on the ones before it. Unlike synthetic Ugaritic grammars—which have been known to be overwhelming for students—Basics of Ancient Ugaritic draws from cuneiform texts and lets students...

without forming a sentence to do so. In Ugaritic, these adjectives are placed immediately after the nouns they modify. Example: ʿanātu maḥrūṯātu plowed furrows Predicative A predicate adjective is an adjective that tells us something about a noun by forming a sentence to do so. For example, in English if one says, “The boat is big,” the adjective “big” tells us something about the boat by forming a sentence to do so. These adjectives are separated from the nouns they modify by some form of
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