Urartian language
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| Urartian | |
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| Region | Northeastern Anatolia |
| Extinct | Yes |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
Urartian is the name for the language spoken by the people of the ancient kingdom of Urartu in Northeast Anatolia (present-day Turkey), in the region of Lake Van.
Urartian was a separate language, which was neither a Semitic nor Indo-European language but a member of the Hurro-Urartian family.
Books [change]
- C. B. F. Walker: section Cuneiform in Reading the Past. Published by British Museum Press, 1996, ISBN 0-7141-8077-7.
- J. Friedrich: Urartäisch, in Handbuch der Orientalistik I, ii, 1-2, pp. 31-53. Leiden, 1969.
- Gernot Wilhelm: Urartian, in R. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. Cambridge, 2004.
- Mirjo Salvini: Geschichte und Kultur der Urartäer. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1995.
