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Urartian

Urartian: /oo rahr"tee euhn/, adj.

1. of or pertaining to Urartu, its people, or their language.

n.

2. a native or inhabitant of Urartu.

3. the non-Semitic, non-Indo-European language of Urartu, written in a cuneiform syllabic script.

[URART(U) + -IAN]

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