Eblaite language

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Eblaite
Eblaite inscriptions found in Ebla
Region	Ebla
Era	3rd millennium BC[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic East Semitic Eblaite
Writing system	Cuneiform
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xeb
Linguist List	xeb
Glottolog	ebla1238

Eblaite (/ˈɛblə.aɪt, ˈiːblə-/,^[2] also known as Eblan ISO 639-3), or Palaeosyrian,^[3][4] is an extinct East Semitic language used during the 3rd millennium BC in Northern Syria.^[5] It was named after the ancient city of Ebla, in modern western Syria.^[5] Variants of the language were also spoken in Mari and Nagar.^[5][6] According to Cyrus H. Gordon,^[7] although scribes might have spoken it sometimes, Eblaite was probably not spoken much, being rather a written lingua franca with East and West Semitic features.

The language was discovered through cuneiform tablets found in Ebla.