烏拉爾圖語

烏拉爾圖語是一種已絕跡的胡里安-烏拉爾圖語系語言，曾被烏拉爾圖古王國（當今土耳其東部安那托利亞地區亞美尼亞高原凡湖附近）的居民使用。一些人認為它可能在范湖周圍和上扎布河流域的地區佔主導地位^[1]，而另一些人則認為它是被組成統治階層的相對較少的人口所使用^[2]。烏拉爾圖語最早於公元前九世紀證實，公元前585年烏拉爾圖陷落後不再書寫並滅絕，由亞美尼亞語替代。

^ Wilhelm, Gernot. Urartian. Woodard, Roger D. (編). The ancient languages of Asia Minor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008: 105. ISBN 978-0-511-39494-2. OCLC 235957042.
^ Zimansky, Paul. Urartian Material Culture As State Assemblage: An Anomaly in the Archaeology of Empire. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 1995-08,. 299-300: 103-115. ISSN 0003-097X. doi:10.2307/1357348. Although virtually all the cuneiform records that survive from Urartu are in one sense or another royal, they provide clues to the existence of linguistic diversity in the empire. There is no basis for the a priori assumption that a large number of people ever spoke Urartian. Urartian words are not borrowed in any numbers by neighboring peoples, and the language disappears from the written record along with the government

[1] Wilhelm, Gernot. Urartian. Woodard, Roger D. (編). The ancient languages of Asia Minor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008: 105. ISBN 978-0-511-39494-2. OCLC 235957042.

[2] Zimansky, Paul. Urartian Material Culture As State Assemblage: An Anomaly in the Archaeology of Empire. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 1995-08,. 299-300: 103-115. ISSN 0003-097X. doi:10.2307/1357348. Although virtually all the cuneiform records that survive from Urartu are in one sense or another royal, they provide clues to the existence of linguistic diversity in the empire. There is no basis for the a priori assumption that a large number of people ever spoke Urartian. Urartian words are not borrowed in any numbers by neighboring peoples, and the language disappears from the written record along with the government

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