Ugaritic Letter Ghain

The consonant is conventionally transliterated ġ. In scholarly Latin spelling, ġ is g with a dot above; the dot is not part of the clay sign.

Ugaritic cuneiform was a 30-sign alphabet pressed into clay as wedges. Tablets from the 13th century BCE use it chiefly for the Ugaritic language, including myths, rituals, and practical accounts.

Its origin is disputed: it may have been a royal project or a practical tool for merchants' accounts. Ugaritic and Phoenician writing shared a regional network. Literacy stayed concentrated among scribes and elites; scholars interpret the local script as a way for Ugarit's literate class to affirm its identity within that connected world. The surviving record ends with Ugarit's destruction in the late 12th century BCE.