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	Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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	Amorite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At first the Amorites were merely a regular irritant to the Ur-III empire, but eventually they undermined it to such an extent that the position of last king Ibbi-Sin was weakened, enabling his Elamite subjects to overthrow his rule.
		Amorites was used by the Israelites to refer to certain highland mountaineers, or hillmen (described in Gen.
		The Biblical Amorites seem to have originally occupied the land stretching from the heights west of the Dead Sea (Gen. 14:7) to Hebron (13.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amorite (1123 words)

	Amorite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In unison with the decline of the Sumerian language in Mesopotamia, the Levant archeological era known alternately either as MB1 or Intermediate EB-MB (this is jargon to an educated reader: disambiguation please) was the time of their most famous incursions.
		At first the Amorites were merely a regular irritant to the Ur-III empire, but eventually they undermined it to such an extent that the position of last king Ibbi-Sin was weakened to the point that his Elamite subjects were able to over throw his rule.
		Amorites was used by the Israelites to refer to certain highland mountaineers, or hillmen (described in Gen 14:7 as descendants of Canaan) who inhabited that land.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Amorite (1510 words)

	Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language)
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these many Middle Easter countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		Amorite is a general term for a language known from the first half of the 2nd millennium BC, proper nouns in the language being inserted into Akkadian and Egyptian texts.
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
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	Semitic languages - Biocrawler definition:Semitic languages - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Semitic languages were among the earliest to attain a written form, with Akkadian writing beginning in the middle of the third millennium BC.
		Akkadian became the dominant literary language of the Fertile Crescent, using the cuneiform script they adapted from the Sumerians, while the sparsely attested Eblaite disappeared with the city, and Amorite is attested only from proper names.
		A number of Gurage languages are to be found in the mountainous center of Ethiopia, while Harari is restricted to the city of Harar; Tigre, spoken in the Eritrean highlands, has over a million speakers.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Semitic_language (1578 words)

	Amorite -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In unison with the decline of the (Click link for more info and facts about Sumerian language) Sumerian language in Mesopotamia, the Levant archeological era known alternately either as MB1 or Intermediate EB-MB (this is jargon to an educated reader: disambiguation please) was the time of their most famous incursions.
		Known Amorites (mostly those of (A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia) Mari) wrote in a dialect of Akkadian found on tablets dating from (Click link for more info and facts about 1800) 1800–1750 BC which shows many northwest Semitic forms and constructions.
		A distinction is sometimes maintained, however, when the Amorites are spoken of as the people of the past, whereas the (The extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied Canaan before the Israelite conquest) Canaanites are referred to as still surviving.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Am/Amorite.htm (1059 words)

	Encyclopedia: Akkadian language
		Akkadian (liÅ¡Änum akkadÄ«tum) was a Semitic language (part of the greater Afro-Asiatic language famaily) spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, particularly by the Assyrians and Babylonians.
		Akkadian is an inflected language, possessing two genders (masculine and feminine), distinguished even in second person pronouns (you-masc., you-fem.) and verb conjugations; three cases for nouns and adjectives (nominative, accusative, and genitive); three numbers (singular, dual, and plural); and unique verb conjugations for each first, second, and third person pronoun.
		There is evidence that native speakers of both languages were in intimate language contact, forming a single society for at least 500 years, so it is entirely likely that a sprachbund could have formed.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Akkadian-language (2762 words)

	Amorite language
		The Amorite language is the term used for the early (North)West Semitic language, spoken by the north Semitic Amorite tribes prominent in early Middle 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 millennia), notably from Mari, and to a lesser extent Alalakh, Harmal, and Khafaya.
		The first person perfect is in -ti (singular), -nu (plural) as in Canaanite languages.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/amorite_language (271 words)

	Amorite language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Amorite language is the term used for the early (North-)West Semitic language, spoken by the north Semitic Amorite tribes prominent in early Middle 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, Harmal, and Khafaya.
		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).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amorite_language (222 words)

	Semitic languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Berber languages are spoken in scattered areas throughout northern Africa from Egypt westward to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Niger River northward to the Mediterranean Sea.
		Amorite is known almost exclusively from glosses and names, and the only known grammar is the grammar of names.
		Despite the unknown linguistic characteristics, Amorite is dated from the known chronology of proper names of the period in the last century of the 3rd...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9066720?tocId=9066720 (809 words)

	The Amorites were not Canaanites and their origin is unknown
		The Amorites may have come of European origin, though no one is sure what was their ethnic origin.
		The 'Amorite' race appeared in the area of the Middle Euphrates, about the time of Abraham (c.1900 B.C. while it should be noted that the city of Tyre was founded in 2,750 B.C.) they had gained control of the whole of Babylonia.
		Amorites land was east of the Jordan (Num.
	phoenicia.org /amorites.html (1120 words)

	SEMITIC LANGUAGES FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Arabic is spoken natively by majorities from Mauritania to Oman, and from Iraq to the Sudan; as the language of the Qur'an and as a ''lingua franca'', it is widely studied in much of the Muslim_world as well.
		Ethiopia and Eritrea contain a substantial number of Semitic languages, of which Amharic in Ethiopia, and Tigrigna in Ethiopia and Eritrea, and are the most widely spoken.
		Nonetheless, one typologically unusual feature is preserved almost everywhere: all Semitic languages exhibit a pattern of stems consisting of consonantal roots (usually consisting of 3 consonants), from which words are formed by imposing vowel changes, prefixes, suffixes, or infixes.
	velocipay.com /Semitic_languages (1480 words)

	Amorites
		Amorites were an ancient tribe of Canaanites who inhabited the country northeast of the Jordan River as far as Mount Hermon.
		In the 13th century BC, the Amorites defeated the Moabites, crossed the Jordan, conquered the Hittites, and overran Canaan to the sea.
		Amorites, highlanders, or hillmen, was the name given to the descendants of one of the sons of Canaan (Gen. 14:7), called Amurra or Amurri in the Assyrian and Egyptian inscriptions.
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	Empire of the 3rd dynasty of Ur (
		While clearly differing linguistically from Akkadian, the Amorite language, which can be reconstructed to some extent from more than a thousand proper names, is fairly closely related to the so-called Canaanite branch of the Semitic languages, of which it may in fact represent an older form.
		By emphasizing to the utmost the danger threatening from the Amorites, Ishbi-Erra urged the king to entrust to him the protection of the neighbouring cities of Isin and Nippur.
		Ishbi-Erra also took advantage of the depression that the king suffered because the god Enlil "hated him," a phrase presumably referring to bad omens resulting from the examination of sacrificed animals, on which procedure many rulers based their actions (or, as the case may be, their inaction).
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	The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
		The ideographic manner of writing it is /Mar-tu/, a word that is used for /Amurru/, the land of the Amorites, which stood for the West in general.
		Amorites had entered Babylonia in considerable numbers during this period, so that there is but little doubt that his popularity was largely due to their influence, and the tablet containing these names was probably drawn up, or at least had the Semitic equivalents added, towards the beginning of that period.
		Addu is explained as being his name in the Amorite language, and a variant form, apparently, which has lost its first syllable, namely, Dadu, also appears--the Assyrians seem always to have used the terminationless form of Addu, namely, Adad.
	www.sacred-texts.com /ane/rbaa.htm (16050 words)

	Amorite language -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Despite the unknown linguistic characteristics, Amorite is dated from the known chronology of proper names of the period in the last century of the…
		English is the national language of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
		The Slavic languages are a group of related languages within the Indo-European family.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9007225 (748 words)

	The Ancient Amorites (Amurru) of Mesopotamia
		In the oldest cuneiform sources the Amorites were equated with the West; although their true place of origin was most likely Arabia -- not Syria.
		In Genesis X:15-16 the "Amorite" is said to be a son of Canaan...
		It was only after the "Amorite" language had been recognized that the discussion of Amorite history began...
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Amorites_Amurru.html (609 words)

	Arabic language and history by ALS International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Arabic is the official language of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, and Yemen as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
		Semitic languages have a recorded history going back thousands of years—one of the most extensive continuous archives of documents belonging to any human language group.
		While the origins of the Semitic language family are currently in dispute among scholars, there is agreement that they flourished in the Mediterranean Basin area, especially in the Tigris-Euphrates river basin and in the coastal areas of the Levant.
	www.alsintl.com /languages/arabic.htm (891 words)

	Amorite language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Amorite language is the term used for the early (North-)West (Click link for more info and facts about Semitic language) Semitic language, spoken by the north Semitic (Click link for more info and facts about Amorite) Amorite tribes prominent in early Middle Eastern history.
		In several cases where Akkadian has , Amorite, like (The ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel) Hebrew and (The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) 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 (Click link for more info and facts about Canaanite languages) Canaanite languages.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Am/Amorite_language.htm (192 words)

	Ebla (Tell Mardikh)
		MAR-TU[-KI]: Amorite - Semitic nomad of the western desert (mar 'wagon' + tu 'to be born').
		The Amorite of the Bible arrived in Palestine about 2300 B.C. as nomads and destroyers of the existing civilizations was popularized by Kenyon in her Schweich Lectures of 1963, from her excavations at Jericho and other sites.
		Dever promoted that the urbanized Amorite arrival as the Middle Bronze Age II A period (2000-1800 B.C. - Ur III period), which is different than the semi-nomadic Amorites of the Early Bronze IV - Middle Bronze I period (2100 B.C.).
	www.mazzaroth.com /ChapterFour/Ebla.htm (2672 words)

	Mail-Jewish Volume 18 Number 49
		But I put off posting that, because, frankly, it wasn't very convincing even to me. It makes sense to translate conversations from another language into Hebrew in the course of a narrative, if the point being made by the Torah depends only on the meaning of the words, not on their phonetic form.
		Jay Shachter suggested, also in a private message, that the language we call Aramaic may have been spoken in Naharayim at the time of Lavan, and that the Arameans adopted this language from the conquered inhabitants much later.
		I also wonder whether Aramaic and Amorite were close enough in vocabulary that "yegar sahaduta" would also make sense in Amorite; perhaps an expert in Semitic linguistics could tell us.
	www.ottmall.com /mj_ht_arch/v18/mj_v18i49.html (1782 words)

	Easton's Bible Dictionary
		They showed no kindness to the Israelites when passing through their territory, and therefore they were prohibited from "entering the congregation of the Lord to the tenth generation" (Deu 23:3).
		On the early Babylonian monuments all Syria, including Palestine, is known as "the land of the Amorites." The southern slopes of the mountains of Judea are called the "mount of the Amorites" (Deu 1:7, Deu 1:19, Deu 1:20).
		The discrepancy supposed to exist between Deu 1:44 and Num 14:45 is explained by the circumstance that the terms "Amorites" and "Amalekites" are used synonymously for the "Canaanites." In the same way we explain the fact that the "Hivites" of Gen 34:2 are the "Amorites" of Gen 48:22.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bib/ebd/ebd021.htm (1283 words)

	The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
		There is hardly any doubt that the Sumero-Akkadians were non-Semites of a fairly pure race, but the country of their origin is still unknown, though a certain relationship with the Mongolian and Turkish nationalities, probably reaching back many centuries—perhaps thousands of years—before the earliest accepted date, may be regarded as equally likely.
		He was known as "Lord of the mountains," and his worship became very popular during the period of the dynasty to which Hammurabi belonged—say from 2200 to 1937 B.C., when Amurru was much combined with the names of men, and is found both on tablets and cylinder-seals.
		Addu is explained as being his name in the Amorite language, and a variant form, apparently, which has lost its first syllable, namely, Dadu, also appears—the Assyrians seem always to have used the terminationless form of Addu, namely, Adad.
	www.pos1.info /7/7rbaa.htm (14319 words)

	Amen - Areopagite -- Adam2.org
		Amorites - highlanders, or hillmen, the name given to the descendants of one of the sons of Canaan (Gen. 14:7), called Amurra or Amurri in the Assyrian and Egyptian inscriptions.
		Their language is the most developed and the richest of all the Semitic languages, and is of great value to the student of Hebrew.
		This part of Armenia was inhabited by a people who spoke a language unlike any other now known, though it may have been related to the modern Georgian.
	www.adam2.org /eastons/ebd/T0000200.html (9108 words)

	bible.org: ISBE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Something is now really definitely known of "the language of Canaan," the speech of the people of patriarchal days in Palestine.
		official Egyptian correspondence between the out-lying province of Canaan and the imperial government at home, carried on, not in the language and script of Egypt, but in the script of Babylonia and in a language that is a modified Babylonian.
		The certainty that there was, just a little before this time, an alliance in conspiracy among the Amorites and others, as revealed in the tablets for the region farther north, gives much color to this view.
	www.bible.org /isbe.asp?id=8650 (2846 words)

	Syria Gate - About Syria - Idlib - Ebla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Not much is known about the people of this kingdom, although it is thought that the founders are of Amorite descent.
		Their language is known as Eblaic, and it was recorded on clay tablets in the Akkadian cuneiform.
		North of the tell are the remains of an Amorite fortress, which was found under a villa dating back to the Persian and Hellenistic periods.
	www.syriagate.com /Syria/about/cities/Idlib/ebla.htm (455 words)

	Amorites (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		On the early Babylonian monuments all Syria, including Palestine, is known as "the land of the Amorites." The southern slopes of the mountains of Judea are called the "mount of the Amorites" (Deut.
		They seem to have originally occupied the land stretching from the heights west of the Dead Sea (Gen.
		14:45 is explained by the fact that the terms "Amorites" and "Amalekites" are used synonymously for the "Canaanites."
	christiananswers.net /dictionary/amorites.html (262 words)

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