Hurrian

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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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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Hurrian language 1
Hurrian people 1

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 (6)

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

Akkadian → influenced → Hurrian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrian language
Hurrian → spokenBy → Hurrian self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hurrian people