THE HURRIAN LANGUAGE

Author: Marie Young (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) The archaeological excavations of the twentieth century conducted in Mari, Hattusha, Ugarit, and Emar have unearthed many documents which allowed us to apprehend the Hurrian culture and language. This written documentation shows the importance of the Hurrians in the history of the region. This language was spoken, as far as we know, in the northern parts of Iraq, northern Syria, and southeast Turkey, a region also called after its ri...