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An alphabet written in wedges.
Also known as: Ugaritic cuneiform, Wedge alphabet
The Late Bronze Age alphabet of Ugarit, written with cuneiform wedges but alphabetic in structure.
Writes the Ugaritic language in an alphabet of about thirty wedge-built signs.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Alphabetic in principle and cuneiform in medium, which shows the two are independent: the wedge is a way of making marks in clay and the alphabet is a way of organising them.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Its sign order, recorded on school tablets, matches the order of the later Hebrew and Greek alphabets, which is direct evidence that alphabetical order is older than the alphabets that use it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Around thirty signs, each built from a few wedge-shaped strokes and far simpler in outline than a Mesopotamian cuneiform sign, written left to right.