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Introduction

Ugaritic cuneiform was used to write the Ugaritic language used in the city state of Ugarit from the 14th to 12th centuries BCE. (The site of Ugarit is in present day Syria and the area is now called Ras Shamra.)

Font Samples

font sample * font information
Ugritic font Aegean    [ show all samples ]  (Aegean.otf)
Source: Free download from George Douros's 'Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts' page.
Stats: Version 1.01 has 3,578 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cypriot Syllabary, Greek, Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Private Use Area (Lycian, Carian, Linear A, Lydian, Anatolian/Luvian Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, Cretan Hieroglyphs, others)
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek, Latin
Sample of ALPHABETUM Unicode at 22pt ALPHABETUM Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (ALPHABETUM v.9.00.ttf)
Note: Excellent font for linguistics and ancient languages.
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Source: Shareware ($15) from Juan José Marcos.
Stats: Version 9.0 Feb 2007 has 5,515 glyphs and 220 kerning pairs
Support: Coptic, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Gothic, Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Glagolitic, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Ogham, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Runic, Ugaritic, Private Use Area (Iberic & Celtiberic, additional Old Italic glyphs, Old & Medieval Latin)
Sample of Andagii at 22pt Andagii    [ show all samples ]  (andagii_.ttf)
Source: Free download of Mark Williamson's fonts
Stats: Version 16/04/2003 has 140 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Osmanya, Shavian, Ugaritic
Sample of Code2001 at 18pt Code2001    [ show all samples ]  (code2001.ttf)
Source: Free download from James Kass's webpage.
Stats: Version 0.917 has 2,944 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cirth, Cypriot Syllabary, Deseret, Gothic, Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Shavian, Tengwar, Ugaritic
OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
Sample of MPH 2B Damase at 20pt MPH 2B Damase    [ show all samples ]  (damase_v.2.ttf from damase_v.2.zip)
Source: Free download locally.
Stats: Version 001.000 / 002.000 has 2,896 glyphs and 192 kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Deseret, Georgian (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B (partial coverage of ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Phoenician, Shavian, Syloti Nagri (no conjuncts), Tai Le (no combining tone marks), Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese
 

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