Kassite (also Cassite) was a language spoken by the Kassites in Mesopotamia from approximately the 18th to the 7th century BC. From the 16th to 12th centuries...
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classification of the Kassite language, like the Sumerian language and Hurrian language, is uncertain, and, also like the two latter languages, has generated...
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millennia BCE. A dynasty of Kassite origin ruled Babylonia starting with the fifteenth century BCE. Kassites spoke the Kassite language, known from references...
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that the language families are related, or at least that the evidence is far from conclusive at present. The poorly-attested Kassite language does not...
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The Kassite dynasty, also known as the third Babylonian dynasty, was a line of kings of Kassite origin who ruled from the city of Babylon in the latter...
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Indo-European migrations (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
The Kassites were polytheistic, and the name of some 30 gods are known. The Kassite language has not been classified. Genetic relations of the Kassite language...
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Fertile Crescent (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
Afroasiatic languages confined to Egypt Hurro-Urartian languages, a small family. The Kassite language spoken in the northern part of the region may have...
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Pre-Greek substrate (redirect from Greek substrate language)
Hurro-Urartian languages Hurrian language Urartian language (?) Kassite language North Picene language Paleo-Sardinian language (also called Paleosardinian...
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The early Kassite rulers are the sequence of eight, or possibly nine, names which appear on the Babylonian and Assyrian King Lists purporting to represent...
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Hattic, Elamite, Kassite, Colchian and Sumerian) which were classified as distinct pre-Indo-European language families or language isolates. In 1953...
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Aramaic (redirect from Aramaic language)
Classical Syriac: ܐܪܡܐܝܬ, romanized: arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia...
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Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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Babylonia (category Articles containing German-language text)
Akkadian language (the language of its native populace) for official use, despite its Northwest Semitic-speaking Amorite founders and Kassite successors...
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Crete) Hattic † (Anatolia) – probably a language isolate Kaskian † (Anatolia) – possibly related to Hattic Kassite † (Iraq) – possibly Hurro-Urartian Gutian...
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is marked by the Kassite invasion of Babylonia around 1550 BC. The Kassites, who reigned for 300 years, gave up their own language in favor of Akkadian...
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Burna-Buriash II (category Kassite kings)
servant/protégé of the Lord of the lands in the Kassite language) is recorded as the 19th King to ascend the Kassite throne, he succeeded Kadašman-Enlil I, who...
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Karaindash (category Kassite kings)
of Sumer and Akkad, King of the Kassites, King of Karduniaš,” inscribed ka-ru-du-ni-ia-aš, probably the Kassite language designation for their kingdom and...
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Dur-Kurigalzu (category Kassite cities)
Baghdad. It was founded by a Kassite king of Babylon, Kurigalzu I (died c. 1375 BC) and was abandoned after the fall of the Kassite dynasty (c. 1155 BC). The...
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larger families have been identified: Elamite Hattic Kassite Sumerian Some well known constructed languages are agglutinative, such as Black Speech, Esperanto...
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Gutian, and Kassite are all considered unclassified languages, but their status is disputed by a minority of linguists. Many extinct languages of the Americas...
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the Middle Babylonian period, approximately from 1600 to 1000 BC, the Kassite rulers continued to use Sumerian in many of their inscriptions, but Akkadian...
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Amorite is an extinct early Semitic language, formerly spoken during the Bronze Age by the Amorite tribes prominent in ancient Near Eastern history. It...
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Buga (deity) (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
Mongolian term bogdo (holy), Old Persian language baga (god), and the Kassite language bugas (god). The Even language term for the highest deity (the creator)...
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Elam (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
number was possibly larger. Some of them married Kassite princesses. The Kassites were also a language isolate speaking people from the Zagros Mountains...
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cuneiform: 𒌷𒉌𒅆𒇷, romanized: nešili, lit. 'the language of Neša', or nešumnili lit. 'the language of the people of Neša'), also known as Nesite (Nešite/Neshite...
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Gutian (/ˈɡuːtiən/) is an extinct unclassified language that was spoken by the Gutian people, who briefly ruled over Sumer as the Gutian dynasty in the...
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July 2024. c. 200 BC. "Kassites". Crystalinks. Retrieved 22 September 2024. Kassite (Cassite) was a language spoken by Kassites in northern Mesopotamia...
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correctly. Mandaic, or more specifically Classical Mandaic, is the liturgical language of Mandaeism and a South Eastern Aramaic variety in use by the Mandaean...
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symbols instead of cuneiform script. Hurrian is an extinct Hurro-Urartian language spoken by the Hurrians (Khurrites), a people who entered northern Mesopotamia...
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known as Eblan ISO 639-3), or Palaeosyrian, is an extinct East Semitic language used during the 3rd millennium BC in Northern Syria. It was named after...
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