The Hurrians speak an ergative-agglutinative language, conventionally…

1629 BCE to 1486 BCE

The Hurrians speak an ergative-agglutinative language, conventionally called Hurrian, unrelated to neighboring Semitic or Indo-European languages, but clearly related to Urartian—a language spoken about a millennium later in northeastern Anatolia—and possibly, very distantly, to the present-day Northeast Caucasian languages.

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Urkesh Al-Hasakah Syria View →

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Hurrians View → Ashur, or “Assyria, (Old) Kingdom of” View → Babylonian Kingdom of the Kassites View → Mitanni (Hanigalbat), Kingdom of View →

Topics
Subboreal Period View → Hurrian Conquests View → Middle Bronze Age II C (Near and Middle East) View →

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Origins View → Language View → Linguistics View → Human Migration View →

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