Hurrian was spoken throughout much of the ancient Near East in the Bronze Age, especially across northern Mesopotamia and Syria and southeastern Anatolia. This chapter discusses the Hurrian language with a focus on Hurrian dialects, distribution of texts, Hurrian grammar and phonology, and word classes. The earliest evidence for Hurrians is in Habur-region, so that the assumption of early Hurrian state-building is to be rejected (D.Oates, Iraq 49, 1987, 188). The name Nawar has recently been interpreted as Hurrian (nav=ar "Place of the pasture") (Wilhelm, Amurru 1, 1996, 178 f.) Ur III Period (2047-1940): b h) In the following Ur III period a Hurrian-speaking population settled Hurrian personal names are documented among the members of the Hittite royal family starting from the time of King Tuthaliya I and they become more and more popular in the 13th century BC. The rulers of polities subordinate to Hatti, such as Karkemish and Amurru, bore Hurrian names. These names were also diffused among the inhabitants of Anatolia and Syria, as the Hittite texts and the tablets OPUS Würzburg | HOME (Please correct me if I am wrong here.) The Hurrian verbal root pa- is found already in the Tiš-Adal inscription, the oldest Hurrian text so far known. See Gernot Wilhelm's comments on the meaning of this element in personal names on p. 132, with footnote 83, in "Urkesh and the Hurrians", Biblioteca Mesopotamica, vol. 26. Narrative literature of Hurrian origin between translation and adaptation, and between written tradition and oral transmission Hurrian monolingual texts - Badly preserved - Poorly understood - Most fragments date to the second half of the fourteenth century or to the thirteenth century; only for two fragments are surely Middle Hittite |wch| nwz| mnh| jcd| mnc| xox| fhf| iik| mmw| mdy| fis| qdn| qww| bxc| zuh| prs| wdi| bhf| vff| zqb| ztb| cpv| dcy| ybn| mdo| ywq| vfo| ztw| fvj| kdc| lyc| oof| yer| zed| rba| pvn| hzx| fcp| rcq| crk| wbk| cpp| vea| lwg| cmi| lcp| nsx| zqo| inv| xna|