Hurrian

Extinct ancient Hurro-Urartian language spoken in Mesopotamia in the 2nd millenium BC

Languagenatural language ancient language extinct languageQ35740

Also known as Hurrian language

Subclass of: Hurro-Urartian
Script: Hurrian cuneiform
, Ugaritic alphabet
, Anatolian Hieroglyphs
+1 more
Indigenous to: Mesopotamia

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Hurrian is an extinct Hurro-Urartian language spoken by the Hurrians (Khurrites), a people who entered northern Mesopotamia around 2300 BC and had mostly vanished by 1000 BC. Hurrian was the language of the Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia and was likely spoken at least initially in Hurrian settlements in modern-day Syria.

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3 linked to Hurrian in Wikidata

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Date: 2nd millennium BCE
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1.Stated in Archaeology & Language
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Country: Mitanni
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1.Stated in Archaeology & Language
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Linguistic typology: agglutinative language
Has grammatical case: associative case
UNESCO language status: 6 extinct
Followed by: Urartian

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18 identifiers linking Hurrian across the web's reference databases

40.7333, 43.3167OpenStreetMap ↗

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