Amorite

…They are divided into Canaanite and Aramaic languages, and the oldest material in the former is Ebla, from the second half of the 3rd millennium BC, inscribed on a part of a large number of cuneiform tablets excavated at Tell Mardih in Syria in 1974-75. Its contents await further research. The hundreds of proper names found on cuneiform tablets excavated at Mari in the upper Euphrates are considered to reflect Amorite, and together with annotations and other information contained in correspondence between Canaanite princes and the king of Egypt (14th century BC) excavated at Amarna in Egypt, they are considered to be Canaanite materials from the 2nd millennium BC. In addition, Moabite (the language of a victory monument consisting of over 300 words erected in the 9th century BC by Mesha, the king of Moab, east of the Dead Sea) is also known.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…カナン語群とアラム語群に分けられ，前者の最古の資料は1974‐75年シリアのテル･マルディフで発掘された大量の楔形文字板の一部に刻まれた，前3千年紀後半のエブラ語Eblaで，その内容は今後の研究に待つ。ユーフラテス上流のマリ出土の楔形文字板に見える数百の固有名詞はアモリ語Amoriteの反映と見られ，エジプトのアマルナ出土の，カナン諸侯とエジプト王との往復書簡(前14世紀)に含まれる語注等とともに，前2千年紀のカナン語の資料とされる。このほかモアブ語Moabite(死海東部のモアブの王メシャが前9世紀に建てた，300語あまりから成る戦勝記念碑の言語。…

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