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Preferred term

xurUrartian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Urartian, Vannic, and (in older literature) Chaldean are conventional names for the language spoken by the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Urartu that was located in the region of Lake Van, with its capital near the site of the modern town of Van, in the Armenian Highland, modern-day Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It was probably spoken by the majority of the population around Lake Van and in the areas along the upper Zab valley.

Entry terms

  • Urartian language

ISO 639-3 code

  • xur

Notation

  • xur

In other languages

  • Urartäische Sprache

    German

  • Lingua urartea

    Italian

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/xur

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