Hurrian

extinct ancient Hurro-Urartian language spoken in Mesopotamia in the 2nd millenium BC
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Hurrian is a language. It was spoken in the country of Mitanni. [1]

Hurrian

Summary

Hurrian is a language[1]. Hurrian ranks in the top 1% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,016 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hurrian is in the country of Mitanni[3].
  • Hurrian's instance of is recorded as language[4].
  • Hurrian's instance of is recorded as ancient language[5].
  • Hurrian is a type of Hurro-Urartian[6].
  • Hurrian's writing system is recorded as cuneiform[7].
  • Hurrian's writing system is recorded as Hurrian cuneiform[8].
  • Hurrian's writing system is recorded as Ugaritic alphabet[9].
  • Hurrian's writing system is recorded as Anatolian Hieroglyphs[10].
  • Hurrian's Commons category is recorded as Hurrian language[11].
  • Hurrian took place on 1500 BC[12].
  • Hurrian's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 40.733333333333334, 'lon': 43.31666666666667}[13].
  • Hurrian's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hurrian language[14].
  • Hurrian's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[15].
  • Hurrian's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/hurrian[16].
  • Hurrian's UNESCO language status is recorded as 6 extinct[17].
  • Hurrian's indigenous to is recorded as Mesopotamia[18].
  • Hurrian's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/XHU[19].
  • Hurrian's has grammatical case is recorded as associative case[20].
  • Hurrian's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[21].

Why It Matters

Hurrian ranks in the top 1% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,016 views/month).[2] Hurrian has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Hurrian is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . Archaeology & Language. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Archaeology & Language. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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