Cassite
- noun
- Specialized
- The Kassites brought the Cassite language to prominence after conquering Babylon.
Examples
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Scholars debate the classification of Cassite within ancient Near Eastern languages.
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The Cassite language was once spoken in Mesopotamia.
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Little is known about the Cassite language, as only a few words survive in texts.
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The Cassite script remains largely undeciphered.
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Little is known about the Cassite language, as only a few words survive in texts.
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The Cassite language was once spoken in ancient Mesopotamia by the Kassite people.
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Scholars debate the classification of Cassite as part of the ancient Near Eastern linguistic family.
Synonyms
An extinct language once spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, known from a few names and words on clay tablets
An extinct language once spoken by the Kassite people in ancient Mesopotamia in the second millennium BCE
An ancient language once spoken in Babylonia that is now extinct
Compounds
- Specialized
An extinct language once spoken by the Kassite people in ancient Mesopotamia in the second millennium BCE
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cassite also names the language of the Kassites, because languages often take the name of the people who speak them, and that is why Cassite refers to this now mostly lost ancient language.
