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The Urartian language is an ergative-absolutive, ... Livius History of Urartu/Armenia; An Urartian Ozymandias Archived 2008-10-12 at the Wayback Machine – article ...
Urartian or Vannic [1] is an extinct Hurro-Urartian language which was spoken by the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Urartu (Biaini or Biainili in Urartian), which was centered on the region around Lake Van and had its capital, Tushpa, near the site of the modern town of Van in the Armenian highlands, now in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. [2]
The Marhashite personal names seems to point towards an Eastern variant of Hurrian, or another language of the Hurro-Urartian language family rather than to Indo-European or Semitic. There was a strong Hurrian influence on the Hittite culture in ancient times, so many Hurrian texts are preserved from Hittite political centres.
The agglutinating and highly ergative Hurrian language is related to the Urartian language, the language of the ancient kingdom of Urartu. [59] Together they form the Hurro-Urartian language family. The external connections of the Hurro-Urartian languages are disputed.
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The term "Alarodian languages" was revived by I. M. Diakonoff for the proposed language family that unites the Hurro-Urartian and Northeast Caucasian languages. [8] Work by I. M. Diakonoff and Starostin (1986) asserted the connection between "Nakh-Dagestanian" (NE Caucasian) and Hurro-Urartian on the basis of comparison of their reconstruction ...
The controversial Alarodian language theory, a proposed language family that encompasses the Northeast Caucasian languages and the extinct Hurro-Urartian languages, derives its name from the Alarodians. An earlier, separate Alarodian language group was proposed by Joseph Karst in 1928.
Little is known about the language of the Urumu. However, their name, and the presence of Armenian toponyms in the region, led Igor Diakonoff and other scholars to suggest the Urumu (along with their allies the Mushki) may have been speakers of Proto-Armenian , the direct ancestor of the modern Armenian language.