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Ilse Wegner 2000

Marco De Pietri – July 2019

Einführung in die hurritische Sprache.
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

This grammar of the Hurrian language is divided into four sections:

  1. introduction about chronology, geography and dialects;
  2. an introduction to the grammar;
  3. typology of the Hurrian language, script and phonetic, morphology, syntax, a paragraph about ‘Althurritisch’ and some textual specimens;
  4. analysis of some texts & indices.

Urkesh is specifically mentioned on pp. 16-17, in the historical introduction of the Hurrian language, among the other main findspots of texts in Hurrian.

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