Amorite
Extinct languageLanguage Information
Amorite is an extinct language that has not been spoken for thousands of years. During its height in the Bronze Age (roughly 2500 BCE to 1200 BCE), it was spoken across an area that corresponds to several modern-day Middle Eastern countries and territories
Syria: The geographic origin and heartland of the Amorite people.Iraq: Particularly in central and southern Mesopotamia (Babylonia), where Amorite dynasties took power.Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories: Spoken as Amorite tribes expanded into the southern Levant and Canaan.Lebanon: Prominently spoken in the coastal northern Levant and the ancient kingdom of Amurru.
and is classified within the Northwest Semitic branch. It holds a special significance as the oldest known Northwest Semitic language, making it an archaic relative to later languages like Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, and Ugaritic.
Syria: The geographic origin and heartland of the Amorite people.Iraq: Particularly in central and southern Mesopotamia (Babylonia), where Amorite dynasties took power.Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories: Spoken as Amorite tribes expanded into the southern Levant and Canaan.Lebanon: Prominently spoken in the coastal northern Levant and the ancient kingdom of Amurru.
and is classified within the Northwest Semitic branch. It holds a special significance as the oldest known Northwest Semitic language, making it an archaic relative to later languages like Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, and Ugaritic.
- Language Family
- Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic)
- Subgroup
- Semitic