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Hurrian
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extinct ancient Hurro-Urartian language spoken in Mesopotamia in the 2nd millenium BC
Key facts
- Native to
- Mitanni
- Region
- Near East
- Ethnicity
- Hurrians
- Era
- attested 2300–1000 BC
- Language family
- Hurro-Urartian Hurrian
- Writing system
- Hittite , Ugaritic
- Iso 639 3
- xhu
- Linguist list
- xhu
- Glottolog
- hurr1240
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Classification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hurrian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.