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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Semitic language of ancient Ebla.
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- proper noun An
extinct Semitic language spoken in the 3rd millennium BCE in the ancient city of Ebla, in modernSyria . It was written incuneiform script and is considered to be the oldest written Semitic language.
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Eblaite was a west Semitic language, possibly an early version of Canaanite.
c. Ebla and Mari 2001
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