Suffixaufnahme in Hurrian and Urartian

Abstract Hurrian is an Ancient Near Eastern language written in syllabic Babylonian cuneiform and to a lesser extent also in Ugaritic alphabetic script. It was widely spoken in the northern parts of the Fertile Crescent at least from the last quarter of the third millennium BCE on until the end of the second millennium BCE. For another half millennium it survived in small pockets in Kurdistan, whence the language originally came. Together with Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hittite, Hurrian was one of the most important written languages of the Ancient Near East. Among the Hurrian texts so far discovered are letters, myths, incantations, prayers, offering rituals, omens, examples of wisdom literature, and scribal tools such as word-lists and god-lists.