Ancient Semitic IV: : Семитские языки. Угаритский

In the fourth video of my new series I am talking about the Ugaritic language. I am explaining some of its linguistics features, how to read its script and in the end I am presenting some Ugaritic texts. Contents: 00:02:44 Overview of Ugaritic 00:07:52 Features of Ugaritic 00:17:48 Overview of Ugaritic Writing 00:23:42 The Ugaritic Alphabet 00:48:02 Ugaritic Sample Texts Here is the translation of the final text: “To the king of Ugarit, my brother, say: Message of the king of Tyre, your brother. May it be well with you. May the gods guard you, may they keep you well. Here with meit is well. There with you, whatever is well, send word (of that) back (to me). Your ships that you dispatched to Egypt have wrecked off Tyre when they found themselves caught in a bad storm. The salvage master, however, was able to remove the entire (cargo of) grain in their possession. (Then) I took over the entire (cargo of) grain, as well as all the people and their food, fro