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- noun an ancient people who lived in northern
Mesopotamia ; they created a powerful kingdom calledMitanni in the 16-13th century BC - adjective of or pertaining to the Hurrians, their language or culture
- proper noun the
language of Hurrians; it is non-Indo-European and non-Semitic; the only known relative is theUrartian
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Examples
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Also in that period, cuneiform writing became a general purpose writing system for logograms, syllables, and numbers, and this script was adapted to another Mesopotamian language, Akkadian, and from there to others such as Hurrian, and Hittite.
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Also in that period, cuneiform writing became a general purpose writing system for logograms, syllables, and numbers, and this script was adapted to another Mesopotamian language, Akkadian, and from there to others such as Hurrian, and Hittite.
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Note easterly Hurrian kuwahi too although seeking an origin of this word in Eastern Turkey seems most unlikely despite what Puhvel suggests (see Puhvel, Hittite Etymological Dictionary: Words beginning with K (1997), p.257).
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I'm just throwing this idea in the ring again because I've recently tried working on translating a Hurrian text R.S.
Etruscan citynames 2010
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Hurrian Hymn no. 6, the earliest nearly-complete piece of written music, and I found that when authors included the umpteen-hundred suffixes in the glossary, either mixed in with the roots or in their own section, it made for much easier reference!
Etruscan citynames 2010
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Note easterly Hurrian kuwahi too although seeking an origin of this word in Eastern Turkey seems most unlikely despite what Puhvel suggests (see Puhvel, Hittite Etymological Dictionary: Words beginning with K (1997), p.257).
Archive 2010-07-01 2010
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Information is a mere click away on the net and if you were honestly knowlegeable in Hurrian than you'd have surely read Woodard, The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor 2008, p.94 which gives a clear summary of the Hurrian declensional system.
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And restricting ourselves only to PIE and internal reconstruction of PIE, I've also already stated that a deictic postclitic with added support from real-world languages which do the same sufficiently explains the marked nominative in PIE without contorting the entire declensional system to eke out an ergative suffix so that you can fantasize about Hurrian links.
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Despite all that detailed work, I find nothing Hurrian about Etruscan.
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Hurrian for that matter is poorly understood to begin with, leading to many a crackpot using it to claim that just about any language they wish is related to it.
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