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Urartu - Language | | Urartu - Language: Encyclopedia II - Urartu - Language | | The Urartians spoke an agglutinative language, conventionally called Urartian, which was related to Hurrian in the Hurro-Urartian family, and was neither Semitic nor Indo-European. It had close linguistic similarities to Northeast Caucasian languages. Igor Diakonov even places it in the Alarodian family, based on linguistic similarities with Northeast Caucasian languages. A more distant connection between Urartian and the modern Georgian la ...
See also:Urartu, Urartu - Name, Urartu - History, Urartu - Origins, Urartu - Main period, Urartu - Decadence, Urartu - Arcaheological rediscovery, Urartu - Economy and politics, Urartu - Language, Urartu - The Urartian legacy, Urartu - Literature | | | Urartu, Urartu - Arcaheological rediscovery, Urartu - Decadence, Urartu - Economy and politics, Urartu - History, Urartu - Language, Urartu - Literature, Urartu - Main period, Urartu - Name, Urartu - Origins, Urartu - The Urartian legacy, Languages of the Caucasus, Hurro-Urartian languages, Urartian language, List of Kings of Urartu | | |
| | | Urartu: Encyclopedia II - Urartu - Language
Urartu - Language
The Urartians spoke an agglutinative language, conventionally called Urartian, which was related to Hurrian in the Hurro-Urartian family, and was neither Semitic nor Indo-European. It had close linguistic similarities to Northeast Caucasian languages. Igor Diakonov even places it in the Alarodian family, based on linguistic similarities with Northeast Caucasian languages. A more distant connection between Urartian and the modern Georgian language has been postulated as well.
The Urartu language was originally written using locally-developed hieroglyphics, but the Urartians adapted the Assyrian cuneiform script for most purposes. After the 8th century BC, the hieroglyphic script was restricted to religious and accounting purposes. Currently, samples of Urartian written language have survived in many inscriptions found in the area of Urartu kingdom.
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