“Hurrians in the Kültepe Texts,”
in Dercksen 2008, Anatolia and the Jazira, pp. 181-194.
Referring to the Urkesh evidence that supports an early presence of the Hurrians in the northern Jazira, Wilhelm says that it “coincides well with this writer’s argument that Hurrian anthroponymy points at a long ‘Sprachbund’ situation between Hurrian and ancient Semitic languages, because Hurrian shares a certain type of sentence names with Akkadian, Amorite and Canaanite” (p. 181).
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