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Amorite

Amorite

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An old language once spoken in Mesopotamia and Syria
  • noun
  • Specialized
: amorita
  • Archaeologists have uncovered inscriptions that include examples of the extinct Amorite language.

Examples

  • Linguists study the Amorite language to understand its influence on other ancient Semitic languages.

  • The Amorite language was once spoken by the people who inhabited parts of ancient Mesopotamia.

  • The land of the hittites, the jebozites, the amorites, and, uh, need I add...

    King David (1985)

Surface Forms

Amorite singular
Amorites plural

Morphology

Amorite = Amor (opaque) = Amor + ite

Denotes the language of the Amor people via '-ite'; without knowledge of the ethnonym, the composition is not informative to learners.

Etymology

The word Amorite for the language comes from the people called the Amorites, and it names the speech they once used in Mesopotamia and Syria. So, the Amorite language is the old, now extinct, language of that group, known to us from inscriptions.