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The people of Ugarit were the Canaanites, precursors to the Phoenicians
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They were perhaps the first to recognize that human speech consists of only a finite number of atomic sounds
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And all that was really needed was a symbol for each
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They devised 30 symbols from which the alphabets of all phonetic languages are derived
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Yes all: Hebrew, Latin, Sanskrit, Aramaic, Arabic, Greek, etc
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This where the Canaanile Alphabet of Ougarit was found, the oldest alphabet in the world, created 1400BC
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A tomb
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A tomb
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Some French archeologists are doing a dig at the moment
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Some French archeologists are doing a dig at the moment
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Some wildflowers
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Some wildflowers
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Some wildflowers
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