Hurro-Urartian languages

Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the 1st century BC. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions () which form their signs. Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).

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

extinct language of Urartu

extinct language family

language

stele found in Kelashin, Iraq, that bears an Urartian-Assyrian bilingual text

pair of twin Hurrian foundation documents, one on display in the Louvre and the other in New York