Hurrian language

Hurrian
Hurrian
	The Louvre lion and accompanying stone tablet bearing the earliest known text in Hurrian
Native to	Mitanni
Region	Near East
Ethnicity	Hurrians
Era	attested 2300–1000 BC
Language family	Hurro-Urartian Hurrian;
Writing system	Hittite cuneiform
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xhu
Linguist List	xhu
Glottolog	hurr1240
	Hurrians in 2300 BC
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Hurrian is an extinct Hurro-Urartian language spoken by the Hurrians (Khurrites), a people who entered northern Mesopotamia around 2300 BC and had mostly vanished by 1000 BC. Hurrian was the language of the Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia and was likely spoken at least initially in Hurrian settlements in modern-day Syria.