Hurrian is an extinct Hurro-Urartian language spoken by the Hurrians, a people who entered northern Mesopotamia around 2300 BC and had mostly vanished by 1000 BC.
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12 Facts About Hurrian language
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Hurrian language provided many verbal suffixes, which often changed the valency of the verb they modify.
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One prominent feature of Hurrian is the phenomenon of Suffixaufnahme, or suffix absorption, which it shares with Urartian and the geographically proximate Kartvelian languages.
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Verbal morphology of Hurrian language is extremely complex, but it is constructed only through the affixation of suffixes and clitics.
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Hurrian language clitics stand for unique words, but are attached to other words as though they were suffixes.
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Infinitive forms of the verb in Hurrian language include both nominalised verbs and a more conventional infinitive.
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Hurrian language contains many expressions that denote spatial and abstract relations and serve as adpositions, most of them built on the dative and genitive cases.
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However, since Hurrian is an ergative–absolutive language, the syntactic roles of a Hurrian phrase do not exactly correspond to the "subject" and "object" of a nominative–accusative language.
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Hurrian language has at its disposal several paradigms for constructing relative clauses.
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Conversely, Hurrian language gave many loan words to the nearby Akkadian dialects, for example hapiru from the Hurrian language hapiri.
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Texts in the Hurrian language itself have been found at Hattusa, Ugarit, and Sapinuwa.
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Also, one of the longest of the Amarna letters is Hurrian language; written by King Tushratta of Mitanni to Pharaoh Amenhotep III.
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