Urartian language

E200030

Hurro-Urartian language agglutinative language ancient language extinct language language

The Urartian language was an extinct agglutinative language of the ancient Near East, spoken in the kingdom centered around Lake Van in the early first millennium BCE and related to Hurrian.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Urartian	9
Urartian language canonical	3
Hurro-Urartian	1

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Hurro-Urartian language ⓘ agglutinative language ⓘ ancient language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ language ⓘ
associatedState	Kingdom of Urartu ⓘ surface form: Urartu
attestedIn	building inscriptions ⓘ military records ⓘ royal inscriptions ⓘ votive inscriptions ⓘ
capitalRegion	Tushpa ⓘ
contactLanguage	Akkadian ⓘ Assyrian dialect of Akkadian ⓘ Classical Armenian ⓘ surface form: Old Armenian
era	early 1st millennium BCE ⓘ
extinction	around 6th century BCE ⓘ
geneticRelation	Hurrian ⓘ surface form: Hurrian language
glottocode	urar1245 ⓘ
grammaticalFeature	lack of grammatical gender ⓘ postpositions ⓘ rich case system ⓘ use of suffixes for case marking ⓘ verbal prefixes and suffixes ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Chaldean (older misnomer) ⓘ Urartian language ⓘ surface form: Urartian Vannic ⓘ
ISO639-3	xur ⓘ
languageFamily	Hurro-Urartian ⓘ
mainCorpusLocation	Karmir Blur ⓘ Toprakkale ⓘ Van ⓘ
morphology	ergative-absolutive alignment ⓘ
neighboringLanguage	Akkadian ⓘ Cuneiform Luwian ⓘ surface form: Luwian Classical Armenian ⓘ surface form: Old Armenian Phrygian ⓘ
primaryArea	Kingdom of Urartu ⓘ
region	Ancient Near East ⓘ Armenian Highlands ⓘ Lake Van region ⓘ
researchField	Assyriology ⓘ Hurro-Urartian studies ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ
scriptType	cuneiform script ⓘ
successorLanguage	Armenian language (in the region) ⓘ
typology	agglutinative ⓘ
wordOrder	SOV ⓘ
writingMaterial	bronze objects ⓘ clay tablets ⓘ stone inscriptions ⓘ
writingSystem	Assyrian cuneiform (adapted) ⓘ Hieroglyphic Luwian (possible limited use) ⓘ Urartian cuneiform ⓘ

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kingdom of Urartu → language → Urartian language ⓘ

Hurrian → languageFamily → Urartian language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hurro-Urartian

Hurrian → closelyRelatedTo → Urartian language ⓘ