Amorite is an early Northwest Semitic language, spoken by the Amorite tribes prominent in early Near Eastern history. It is known exclusively from non-Akkadian proper names recorded by Akkadian scribes during periods of Amorite rule in Babylonia (end of the 3rd and beginning of the 1st millennium), notably from Mari, and to a lesser extent Alalakh, Tell Harmal, and Khafajah.

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  • Amorite is an early Northwest Semitic language, spoken by the Amorite tribes prominent in early Near Eastern history. It is known exclusively from non-Akkadian proper names recorded by Akkadian scribes during periods of Amorite rule in Babylonia (end of the 3rd and beginning of the 1st millennium), notably from Mari, and to a lesser extent Alalakh, Tell Harmal, and Khafajah. Occasionally such names are also found in early Egyptian texts; and one place-name — "Snir" (שְׂנִיר) for Mount Hermon — is known from the Bible, and oddly enough may be Indo-European in origin (possibly due to Hittite influence). Notable characteristics include: The usual West Semitic languages imperfect-perfect distinction is found — e.g. Yantin-Dagan, 'Dagon gives' (ntn); Raṣa-Dagan, 'Dagon was pleased' (rṣy). It included a 3rd-person suffix -a, and an imperfect vowel -a-, as in Arabic rather than the Hebrew and Aramaic -i-. There was a verb form with a geminate second consonant — e.g. Yabanni-Il, 'God creates' (root bny). In several cases where Akkadian has š, Amorite, like Hebrew and Arabic, has h, thus hu 'his', -haa 'her', causative h- or ʔ- (I. Gelb 1958). The 1st-person perfect is in -ti (singular), -nu (plural), as in the Canaanite languages.
  • L’Amorrite est une langue sémitique, parlée par le peuple amorrite ayant vécu en Syrie, en haute et basse Mésopotamie entre la fin du III millénaire et le début du II millénaire av. J. -C.
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  • Amorite is an early Northwest Semitic language, spoken by the Amorite tribes prominent in early Near Eastern history. It is known exclusively from non-Akkadian proper names recorded by Akkadian scribes during periods of Amorite rule in Babylonia (end of the 3rd and beginning of the 1st millennium), notably from Mari, and to a lesser extent Alalakh, Tell Harmal, and Khafajah.
  • L’Amorrite est une langue sémitique, parlée par le peuple amorrite ayant vécu en Syrie, en haute et basse Mésopotamie entre la fin du III millénaire et le début du II millénaire av. J. -C.
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