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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The Amorites (/ˈæməˌraɪts/; Sumerian: 𒈥𒌅, romanized: MAR.TU; Akkadian: 𒀀𒈬𒊒𒌝, romanized: Amurrūm or 𒋾𒀉𒉡𒌝/𒊎 Tidnum; Hebrew: אֱמֹרִי, romanized: ʾĔmōrī;...
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Tell eth-Thadeyn (category Amorite cities)
has been speculated that in the Amorite language it was called "Shaddai". The word in Hebrew (closely related to Amorite)[citation needed] for "two breasts"...
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Ugaritic (redirect from Ugaritic (language))
(/ˌjuːɡəˈrɪtɪk, ˌuː-/) is an extinct Northwest Semitic language, classified by some as a dialect of the Amorite language. It is known through the Ugaritic texts discovered...
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was a Northwest Semitic Canaanite language, very similar to Biblical Hebrew, Ekronite, Ammonite, Phoenician, Amorite and Sutean, spoken by the Edomites...
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Northwest Semitic languages, the others being Aramaic and Amorite. These closely related languages originate in the Levant and Mesopotamia, and were spoken...
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El Shaddai (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
Shaddai in the Amorite language. There was a Bronze-Age city in the region called Tuttul, which means "three breasts" in the Sumerian language. The Hebrew...
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now northeast Syria, among a list of languages spoken in the region. The other languages are Akkadian, Amorite, Gutian, "Subarean" (Hurrian) and Elamite...
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El (deity) (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
form, 'ila, represents the predicate form in the Old Akkadian and Amorite languages. The word is derived from the Proto-Semitic *ʔil-, meaning "god"....
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inhabitants spoke the Amorite language, an extinct early Northwest Semitic language classified as a westernmost or Amorite-specific dialect of Ugaritic...
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within the Afroasiatic family, related to the Semitic languages but not part of them. Amorite appeared in Mesopotamia and the northern Levant c. 2000...
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the extinct Amorite and Ugaritic languages). The East Semitic languages, meanwhile, consist of the extinct Eblaite and Akkadian languages. Ethiopic and...
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acceptance by most scholars. Other poorly attested languages include the Semitic Amorite language spoken by Bronze Age tribespeople. Its westernmost dialect...
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Amurru (god) (category Amorites)
the divine personification of the Amorites. In past scholarship it was often assumed that he originated as an Amorite deity, but today it is generally...
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romanized: Emeg̃ir, lit. ''native language'') was the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900...
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Egyptian and the Semitic languages Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Phoenician, Amorite, and Ugaritic. There is no consensus among historical linguists as to precisely...
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the Early Bronze Age. It is first attested in proper names identified as Amorite in the Middle Bronze Age. The oldest coherent texts are in Ugaritic, dating...
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Babylonia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
the written Akkadian language (the language of its native populace) for official use, despite its Northwest Semitic-speaking Amorite founders and Kassite...
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Aramaic (redirect from Aramaic language)
Canaanite languages such as Hebrew, Edomite, Moabite, Ekronite, Sutean, and Phoenician, as well as Amorite and Ugaritic. Aramaic languages are written...
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tablets, then of 17,000 others the following year, revealing a language different from Amorite, which exhibited archaic morphological characteristics present...
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Mari, Syria (category Amorite cities)
predominantly Amorite but also included Akkadian named people, and although the Amorite language became the dominant tongue, Akkadian remained the language of writing...
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Old Assyrian period (section Language)
Ishme-Dagan I and Yasmah-Adad. Shamshi-Adad (Samsi-Addu in his own Amorite language) was an Amorite king, originally ruling the city of Ekallatum, where he had...
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Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples (category Semitic languages)
Northwest Semitic languages and Arabic. Speakers of Northwest Semitic were the Canaanites (including the Phoenicians, Punics, Amorites, Edomites, Moabites...
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Qatna (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
millennium BC. The Amorites in Qatna spoke their own language, but kings communicated with their counterparts using Akkadian, which was the language of writing...
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Aleppo (category Amorite cities)
origin. Some have proposed that Ḥalab means "iron" or "copper" in the Amorite language since the area served as a major source of these metals in antiquity...
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(/əˈkeɪdiən/; Akkadian: 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑, romanized: Akkadû) is an extinct East Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa, Babylonia...
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Ebla (category Amorite cities)
such as the Amorites. Giovanni Pettinato said the Eblaite language, one of the oldest attested Semitic languages, was a West Semitic language; Gelb and...
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Shamshi-Adad I (category Amorite kings)
Shamshi-Adad (Akkadian: Šamši-Adad; Amorite: Shamshi-Addu), ruled c. 1808–1776 BC, was an Amorite warlord and conqueror who had conquered lands across...
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Suteans (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
The Suteans (Akkadian: Sutī’ū, possibly from Amorite: Šetī’u) were a nomadic Semitic people who lived throughout the Levant, Canaan and Mesopotamia, specifically...
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refer to: Amorites, ancient Middle Eastern people, known as MAR.TU in the Sumerian language Amurru (god), the deity worshiped by the Amorite, also known...
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