Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Anatolia , Levant , Mesopotamia , Zagros Mountains
- Extinct
- 6th century BCE (Urartian)
- Linguistic classification
- One of the world's primary language families
- Proto language
- Proto-Hurro-Urartian
- Subdivisions
- Hurrian Urartian ? Gutian ? Kassite ? Lullubian ? Mannaean ? Subarian ? BMAC language
- Glottolog
- hurr1239
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language family
- Subclass of
- human language
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- topic's main category
- Category:Hurro-Urartian languages
- linguistic typology
- language isolate
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Encyclopedic overview
Urartian text Hurrian text
Hurro-Urartian is an extinct language family of the Ancient Near East, comprising only two known languages: Hurrian and Urartian.
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