Urartiann.adj.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Urartaean n., Vannic.

1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. VI. 62 Rediscovered language..Sumerian, Akkadian, Elamite, Urartian,..and so on.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. xii. 381 Khaldic (also called Urartaean or Vannic), the language of a kingdom which flourished between 900 and 600 B.C...is known from nearly two hundred inscriptions in Akkadian cuneiform.

1964 G. Roux Anc. Iraq xiv. 192 Their language [sc. that of the Hurrians]..is neither Semitic nor Indo-European, but belongs to the vague so-called ‘Asianic’ group, its nearest relative being Urartian, the language spoken in the country of Urartu (Armenia) in the first millennium bc.

1965 J. Puhvel Evidence for Laryngeals 84 The Urartean Kulẖai may correspond to the later city of Κολχίς in Armenia.

1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 263 Hurrian is a non-IE language which has affinities with Urartian, the language of the kingdom of Urartu (‘Ararat’), centred on the area between the lakes Van, Urmia and Sevan.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Urartaean n., a Van.

1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments v. 176 Though the early history of the Urartians is obscure, they are believed to have come eastward to Lake Van from Anatolia.

1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 175 The I[ndo]-E[uropean] immigrants imposed their language on both Hurrians and Urartians and doubtless the non-IE people are ultimately responsible for many of the peculiar and unexplained features of Armenian.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Urartaean a., of or pertaining to the ancient kingdom of Urartu, or Van; Vannic.

1977 Antiquaries Jrnl. 57 264 The Copenhagen cauldron can be regarded as Greek work of Urartian inspiration in the eighth or seventh centuries b.c.