Talk:Eblaite language

Linguistic affiliation?

Is it "closely related to Akkadian"?? The more widely-accepted view is that it's most closely related to Amorite and Ugaritic, and ultimately Canaanite. AnonMoos 03:26, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

That was the most widespread view in the eighties, but scholarly opinion has since shifted. - Mustafaa 11:08, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

people who spoke the language

the article needs more info on the people who spoke the language. Gringo300 00:00, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually, this is a linguistic article and should only refer to another article about the human population of Ebla. (Taivo (talk) 18:40, 9 March 2008 (UTC))

Evidence for East Semitic classification of Eblaite?

I have not seen the evidence that Eblaite is to be classified together with Akkadian as an East Semitic language. I have seen it classified elsewhere as a West or Northwest Semitic language. Giovanni Pettinato, who was responsible for deciphering Eblaite, classified it as West Semitic, noting, however, that a number of the Eblaite tablets were written in Akkadian. Wikipedia classifies Eblaite as East Semitic. Where is the evidence?

Jacob Davidson —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.68.95.65 (talk) 23:13, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I agree that it should not be classified strictly as East Semitic. I'm no archaeolinguist, but based solely on the articles and citations in both the English and French Wikipedia articles, Eblaite contains elements of multiple Semitic languages and would seem to defy being pigeonholed into either one of the East or West families. I've removed the East Semitic languages classification in the Infobox, which matches the heavily researched French article. KDF789 (talk) 19:19, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Translated tables from French Wikipedia

Hello fellow Wikipedians. I have translated most of the tables from the French Wikipedia. Though I do not know the French language, there are enough cognates in the technical linguistic vocabulary that I was able to translate the tables without any serious difficulty. Please feel free to edit them if I have made any mistakes or you see other issues with them.

Jamutaq (talk) 02:27, 2 December 2020 (UTC)