Hurrian

E41617
Near Eastern language agglutinative language ancient language ergative–absolutive language head-final language non-Indo-European language non-Semitic language

Hurrian was an ancient Near Eastern language spoken by the Hurrian people, influential in the linguistic and cultural milieu of Bronze Age Anatolia and Mesopotamia.

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All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Hurrian canonical 6
Hurrian language 6
Hurrians 3

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Near Eastern language ⓘ
agglutinative language ⓘ
ancient language ⓘ
ergative–absolutive language ⓘ
head-final language ⓘ
non-Indo-European language ⓘ
non-Semitic language ⓘ
attestedFrom 3rd millennium BCE ⓘ
attestedUntil early 1st millennium BCE ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Urartian language ⓘ
surface form: Urartian
hasCaseSystem absolutive case ⓘ
allative case ⓘ
dative case ⓘ
equative case ⓘ
ergative case ⓘ
genitive case ⓘ
instrumental case ⓘ
locative case ⓘ
hasGrammaticalNumber plural ⓘ
singular ⓘ
hasImportantCorpus Hittite archives at Hattusa ⓘ
Mitanni treaties ⓘ
tablets from Nuzi ⓘ
tablets from Ugarit ⓘ
hasMorphologyType suffixing ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony absence ⓘ
hasTextType hymns ⓘ
legal documents ⓘ
letters ⓘ
mythological texts ⓘ
ritual texts ⓘ
hasWordOrder SOV ⓘ
influenced Akkadian literary tradition ⓘ
Hittite (Nesite) ⓘ
surface form: Hittite language
languageFamily Urartian language ⓘ
surface form: Hurro-Urartian
reconstructedBy comparative linguistics ⓘ
spokenBy Hurrian self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Hurrian people
spokenDuring Bronze Age ⓘ
spokenIn Anatolia ⓘ
Hittite Empire ⓘ
Levant region ⓘ
surface form: Levant

Mitanni ⓘ
Upper Mesopotamia ⓘ
surface form: northern Mesopotamia
status extinct language ⓘ
usedAs diplomatic language ⓘ
literary language ⓘ
usedIn Hittite royal court ⓘ
Mitanni ⓘ
surface form: Mitanni royal court
writingSystem Ugaritic alphabet ⓘ
cuneiform ⓘ

Referenced by (19)

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

Anatolian languages → influencedBy → Hurrian ⓘ
Akkadian → influenced → Hurrian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrian language
Boğazköy (Hattusa) → languageOfInscriptions → Hurrian ⓘ
Hittite (Nesite) → containsLoanwordsFrom → Hurrian ⓘ
Hurrian → spokenBy → Hurrian self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrian people
Amarna letters → secondaryLanguageElements → Hurrian ⓘ
Khabur River → associatedWith → Hurrian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrian culture
Upper Mesopotamia → inhabitedBy → Hurrian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrians
Mitanni → language → Hurrian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrian language
Mitanni → ethnicGroup → Hurrian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrians
Hittite archives → language → Hurrian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrian language
Urartian language → geneticRelation → Hurrian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrian language
Ancient Near East → containsCivilization → Hurrian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrian civilization
Ancient Near East → majorLanguages → Hurrian ⓘ
Mesopotamian cuneiform → usedForLanguage → Hurrian ⓘ
engaged in diplomacy with Mitanni → hasCulturalContext → Hurrian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrian culture
Mitanni kingdom → ethnicLanguage → Hurrian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrian language
Mitanni kingdom → languageOfRulingElite → Hurrian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrian language
Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Hivites, Jebusites, Girgashites → religiousInfluenceFrom → Hurrian ⓘ
subject surface form: Hittites
this entity surface form: Hurrians