Two Hurrian Loanwords in Ugaritic Texts

The Hurrian texts found in Ras Shamra, both in syllabic and alphabetic writing, have been,and continue to be, of great interest and help in the study of the Hurrian language.1Yet, inversely, Hurrian also contributes to the understanding of some Ugaritic texts. A clear example of this are the bilingu...

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Author: Vita Barra, Juan Pablo
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2009
Country:España
Institution:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repository:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/367315
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/367315
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Ras Shamra
Ugaritic texts
Hurrian Loanwords
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Summary:The Hurrian texts found in Ras Shamra, both in syllabic and alphabetic writing, have been,and continue to be, of great interest and help in the study of the Hurrian language.1Yet, inversely, Hurrian also contributes to the understanding of some Ugaritic texts. A clear example of this are the bilingual ritual texts in Ugaritic-Hurrian. But Hurrian terms and morphological elements also appear in the lexicon of other genres in the Ugaritic textual corpus