Genealogical Position of Ugaritic: the Lexical Dimension Lexical Isoglosses Between Ugaritic and Canaanite

The present contribution continues a series of publications by the author dealing with the lexical evidence for some of the much-discussed problems of the genealogical subgrouping of Semitic. In the present article, specific isoglosses between Ugaritic and the Canaanite languages (notably, Hebrew and Phoenician) are accumulated and discussed, their total number amounting to ca. 80 lexical items. In the second, concluding article (scheduled for publication in the forthcoming issue of Sefarad), this evidence will be compared with specific lexical isoglosses shared by Ugaritic with Semitic languages other than Canaanite.